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If now that city is given to a man for an inheritance, how will the heir receive his inheritance unless he passes through the danger set before him?"
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but the entrance to it is narrow and set in a precipitous place, so that there is fire on the right hand and deep water on the left;
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and there is only one path lying between them, that is, between the fire and the water, so that only one man can walk upon that path.
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If now that city is given to a man for an inheritance, how will the heir receive his inheritance unless he passes through the danger set before him?"
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I said, "He cannot, lord." And he said to me, "So also is Israel's portion.
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For I made the world for their sake, and when Adam transgressed my statutes, what had been made was judged.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.