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He answered me and said, “Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also. The day of judgment is decisive[z] and displays to all the seal of truth. Just as now a father does not send his son, or a son his father, or a master his servant, or a friend his dearest friend, to be ill[aa] or sleep or eat or be healed in his place,
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so no one shall ever pray for another on that day, neither shall anyone lay a burden on another;[ab] for then all shall bear their own righteousness and unrighteousness.”
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I answered and said, “How then do we find that first Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom, and Moses for our ancestors who sinned in the desert,
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and Joshua after him for Israel in the days of Achan,
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and Samuel in the days of Saul,[ac] and David for the plague, and Solomon for those at the dedication,
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