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And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time saying:
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Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.
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And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days’ journey.
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And Jonas began to enter into the city one day’s journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed.
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And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
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And the word came to the king of Ninive: and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water.