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| 2 But neither he nor his officials nor the people themselves paid a bit of attention to the Message God gave by Jeremiah the prophet. | 2 Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet. |
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