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"Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?" "
God's mercy extends even to Israel's enemies, as Jonah reluctantly learns.
Old Testament • Book #32
So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God!...
Jonah 1:7They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is ...
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...
Jonah 1:10Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the me...
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