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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,
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.