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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 behold, it was lost, and my earth, and behold, it 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 which 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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But if you will let seven days more pass -- do not fast during them, however;
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but go into a field of flowers where no house has been built, and eat only of the flowers of the field, and taste no meat and drink no wine, but eat only flowers,
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and pray to the Most High continually -- then I will come and talk with you."
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So I went, as he directed me, into the field which is called Ardat; and there I sat among the flowers and ate of the plants of the field, and the nourishment they afforded satisfied me.
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And after seven days, as I lay on the grass, my heart was troubled again as it was before.
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And my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Most High, and said,
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"O Lord, thou didst show thyself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness when they came out from Egypt and when they came into the untrodden and unfruitful wilderness;