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So I considered the world, and behold, there was peril because of the devices that had come into it.
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And I saw, and spared it greatly, and have kept Me a grape of the cluster, and a plant of a great people.
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Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain, and let My grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labor have I made it perfect.
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Nevertheless, if thou wilt cease yet seven days more; but thou shalt not fast in them,
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but go into a field of flowers where no house is built, and eat only the flowers of the field; taste no flesh, drink no wine, but eat flowers only,
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and pray unto the Highest continually; then will I come and talk with thee."
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So I went my way into the field which is called Ardat, as He commanded me; and there I sat among the flowers, and ate of the herbs of the field, and the meat of the same satisfied me.
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After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, as before.
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And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the Most High and said,
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"O Lord, Thou that showest Thyself unto us, Thou wast shown unto our fathers in the wilderness in a place where no man treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.
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And Thou spokest saying, `Hear Me, O Israel; and mark My words, thou seed of Jacob.