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“If you have just a few precious stones, will you add to them lead and clay?”[o]
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I said, “Lord, how could that be?”
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And he said to me, “Not only that, but ask the earth and she will tell you; defer to her, and she will declare it to you.
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Say to her, ‘You produce gold and silver and bronze, and also iron and lead and clay;
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but silver is more abundant than gold, and bronze than silver, and iron than bronze, and lead than iron, and clay than lead.’