25 The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me, here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist."
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At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
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