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Son of man, relate a tale, and speak a parable to the house of Israel:
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and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Libanus—and he took the choice of the cedar:
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he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city.
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And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place.
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And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that the branches thereof appeared it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.