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"They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah."
God's mercy extends even to Israel's enemies, as Jonah reluctantly learns.
Old Testament • Book #32
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ...
Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God!...
Jonah 1:8Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? ...
Jonah 1:9He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and th...
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