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Thus the disease became permanent; the law was in the hearts of the people along with the evil root; but what was good departed, and the evil remained.
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So the times passed and the years were completed, and you raised up for yourself a servant, named David.
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You commanded him to build a city for your name, and there to offer you oblations from what is yours.
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This was done for many years; but the inhabitants of the city transgressed,
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in everything doing just as Adam and all his descendants had done, for they also had the evil heart.
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