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All your people, under your protection, saw this miracle and went across.
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They pranced about like horses let out to pasture; they skipped about like lambs and praised you, Lord, for saving them.
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They still remembered what life had been like when they were slaves - how the earth bred gnats instead of cattle, how the river produced huge numbers of frogs instead of fish.
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Later, when they desperately wanted better food, quails came up from the sea to satisfy their hunger. The quail was a bird they had never seen before.
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But violent thunder gave warning of the punishment that was coming on those sinners. They suffered a well-deserved punishment for their great wickedness. No nation had ever hated strangers so bitterly.
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Other people had been known to refuse welcome to strangers who came to them, but these people made slaves of those who were their guests and who had shown them kindness.
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Every nation will be punished if it does not welcome foreigners,
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but these people, who had earlier welcomed the foreigners with happy celebrations and treated them as equals, later made them suffer cruelly.
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These people were also struck with blindness, like the men of Sodom who came to the door of that righteous man Lot. They found themselves in total darkness, as each one groped around to find his own door.
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On a harp each string keeps its own pitch, but each sound can be combined with others to make different melodies. That is how it was in those days, when the very elements entered into new combinations. Look at what happened!