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And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken thy commandments,
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which thou hast commanded by thy slaves the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land because of the uncleanness of the people of the lands, for the abominations with which they have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
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Now, therefore, do not give your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever, that ye may be strengthened, and eat the good of the land and leave
it for an inheritance to your sons forever.
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And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guiltiness, seeing that thou our God hast intervened that we no longer be oppressed because of our iniquities and hast given us
such an escape as this,
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should we again break thy commandments and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? Would thou not be angry with us until thou hadst consumed
us, so that
there should be no remnant nor escape?
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O LORD God of Israel, thou
art righteous; for we have an escape, as
it is this day, behold us here, before thee in our guiltiness; for we cannot stand before thee because of this.