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these are the ten tribes which were led away from their own land into captivity in the days of King Hoshea, whom Shalmaneser the king of the Assyrians led captive; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land.
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But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where mankind had never lived,
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that there at least they might keep their statutes which they had not kept in their own land.
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And they went in by the narrow passages of the Euphrates river.
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For at that time the Most High performed signs for them, and stopped the channels of the river until they had passed over.
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