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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;
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and thou didst say, `Hear me, O Israel, and give heed to my words, O descendants of Jacob.
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For behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you and you shall be glorified through it for ever.'
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But though our fathers received the law, they did not keep it, and did not observe the statutes; yet the fruit of the law did not perish -- for it could not, because it was thine.
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Yet those who received it perished, because they did not keep what had been sown in them.
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And behold, it is the rule that, when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any dish food or drink, and when it happens that what was sown or what was launched or what was put in is destroyed,
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they are destroyed, but the things that held them remain; yet with us it has not been so.
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For we who have received the law and sinned will perish, as well as our heart which received it;