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And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever.
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Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both together in health.
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And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his servants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a grave.
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For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to him, in like manner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto her.
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And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel went back to his wife, and said to her:
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Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he be dead, that I may bury him before it be day.
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So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber, and found them safe and sound, sleeping both together.
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And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his wife blessed the Lord,
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And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath not happened as we suspected.
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For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us the enemy that persecuted us.
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And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O Lord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy praise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone art God in all the earth.