24 `And if not, from fear of [this] thing we have done it, saying, Hereafter your sons do speak to ours sons, saying, What to you and to Jehovah God of Israel?
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“No! We did it for fear that some day your descendants might say to ours, ‘What do you have to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?
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