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but now those who have been created in this world, which is supplied both with an unfailing table and an inexhaustible pasture, have become corrupt in their ways.
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So I considered my world, and saw that it was lost. I saw that my earth was in peril because of the devices of those who had come into it.
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And I saw and spared some with great difficulty, and saved for myself one grape out of a cluster, and one plant out of a great forest.
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So let the multitude perish that has been born in vain, but let my grape and my plant be saved, because with much labor I have perfected them.
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"Now, if you will let seven days more pass—do not, however, fast during them,
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