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For their victuals fail them and all their water is scant, and they have determined to lay hands upon their cattle, and purposed to consume all those things that God hath forbidden them to eat by His laws,
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and are resolved to spend the first fruits of the corn and tenths of wine and oil, which they had sanctified and reserved for the priests who serve in Jerusalem before the face of our God--which things it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.
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For they have sent some to Jerusalem, because those also who dwell there have done the like, to bring them a license from the senate.
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Now when they shall bring them word, they will forthwith do it, and they shall be given to thee to be destroyed the same day.
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"Therefore I, thine handmaid, knowing all this, fled from their presence; and God hath sent me to work things with thee, at which all the earth shall be astonished and whosoever shall hear it.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.