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They also brought out the priestly garments as well as early produce and tenth-part gifts. They stirred up nazirites, who had completed the duration of their solomn promises.
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Then they cried aloud to heaven: "What should we do with these people? Where should we take them?
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Your sanctuary is trampled and degraded. Your priests mourn in humiliation.
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The Gentiles are gathered here against us, planning to destroy us. You know what they are plotting.
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How will we be able to withstand them if you don't help us?"