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"So when I, your slave, learned all this, I fled from them. God has sent me to accomplish with you things that will astonish the whole world wherever people shall hear about them.
14
Since even the people in Jerusalem have been doing this, they have sent messengers there in order to bring back permission from the council of the elders.
15
When the response reaches them and they act upon it, on that very day they will be handed over to you to be destroyed.
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"So when I, your slave, learned all this, I fled from them. God has sent me to accomplish with you things that will astonish the whole world wherever people shall hear about them.
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Your servant is indeed God-fearing and serves the God of heaven night and day. So, my lord, I will remain with you; but every night your servant will go out into the valley and pray to God. He will tell me when they have committed their sins.
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Then I will come and tell you, so that you may go out with your whole army, and not one of them will be able to withstand you.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.