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for, to give them relief, quails came up from the sea.
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The punishments did not come upon the sinners without prior signs in the violence of thunder, for they justly suffered because of their wicked acts; for they practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.
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Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them, but these made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
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And not only so, but punishment of some sort will come upon the former for their hostile reception of the aliens;
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but the latter, after receiving them with festal celebrations, afflicted with terrible sufferings those who had already shared the same rights.
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