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For they ranged like horses, and leaped like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who delivered them.
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For they still recalled the events of their sojourn, how instead of producing animals the earth brought forth gnats, and instead of fish the river spewed out vast numbers of frogs.
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Afterward they saw also a new kind of birds, when desire led them to ask for luxurious food;
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for, to give them relief, quails came up from the sea.
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The punishments did not come upon the sinners without prior signs in the violence of thunder, for they justly suffered because of their wicked acts; for they practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.
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