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But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where no human beings had ever lived,
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"And as for your seeing him gather to himself another multitude that was peaceable,
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these are the nine tribes that were taken away from their own land into exile in the days of King Hoshea, whom Shalmaneser, king of the Assyrians, made captives; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land.
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But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where no human beings had ever lived,
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so that there at least they might keep their statutes that they had not kept in their own land.
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And they went in by the narrow passages of the Euphrates river.
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