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"Now, if you will let seven days more pass—do not, however, fast during them,
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but go into a field of flowers where no house has been built, and eat only of the flowers of the field, and taste no meat and drink no wine, but eat only flowers—
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and pray to the Most High continually, then I will come and talk with you."
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So I went, as he directed me, into the field that is called Ardat; there I sat among the flowers and ate of the plants of the field, and the nourishment they afforded satisfied me.
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After seven days, while I lay on the grass, my heart was troubled again as it was before.
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Then my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Most High, and said,
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"O Lord, you showed yourself among us, to our ancestors in the wilderness when they came out from Egypt and when they came into the untrodden and unfruitful wilderness;
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and you said, "Hear me, O Israel, and give heed to my words, O descendants of Jacob.
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For I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and you shall be glorified through it forever.'
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But though our ancestors received the law, they did not keep it and did not observe the statutes; yet the fruit of the law did not perish—for it could not, because it was yours.
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Yet those who received it perished, because they did not keep what had been sown in them.