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The people of Beit-El sent Sar'etzer and Regem-Melekh, and their men, to entreat the LORD's favor,
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and to speak to the Kohanim of the house of the LORD of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
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Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
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"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the Kohanim, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
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When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?