Luke 18:3
And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.
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Luke 18:3
And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.
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Genesis 32:24
Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.
Genesis 32:29
Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.
Job 27:10
Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?
Psalms 4:1
To the chief music-maker on corded instruments. A Psalm. Of David. Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.
Song of Solomon 3:4
I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
Matthew 7:7
Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
Acts 1:14
And they all with one mind gave themselves up to prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
Romans 15:30
Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Colossians 2:1
For it is my desire to give you news of the great fight I am making for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh;
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.
James 5:16
So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
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Genesis 38:19
Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.
2 Samuel 14:2
And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:
2 Samuel 14:5
And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
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Genesis 42:18
And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:
Exodus 3:7
And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
Exodus 3:9
For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.
Nehemiah 5:1
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
Nehemiah 5:3
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
Nehemiah 5:4
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
Nehemiah 5:9
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?
Job 34:28
So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
Psalms 43:2
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Psalms 55:2
Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;
Psalms 55:3
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
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Exodus 32:10
Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.
Exodus 32:11
But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?
Exodus 32:12
Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.
Exodus 32:13
Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.
Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
Isaiah 62:6
I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,
Isaiah 62:7
And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.
Jeremiah 14:11
And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
Acts 7:51
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
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1 Samuel 17:10
And the Philistine said, I have put to shame the armies of Israel this day; give me a man so that we may have a fight together.
1 Samuel 17:26
And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?
2 Kings 18:20
You say you have a design, and strength for war, but these are only words. Now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?
2 Kings 18:21
See, now, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go through a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.
Isaiah 10:13
For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
Isaiah 10:14
And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
Isaiah 33:8
The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.
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2 Kings 4:13
And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.
2 Kings 8:3
And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.
2 Kings 8:6
And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.
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2 Kings 6:27
And he said, If the Lord does not give you help, where am I to get help for you? from the grain-floor or the grape-crusher?
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2 Kings 6:28
And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.
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Esther 3:9
If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing: and I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's store-house.
Luke 23:23
But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way.
Acts 25:1
So Festus, having come into that part of the country which was under his rule, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
Acts 25:2
And the chief priests and the chief men of the Jews made statements against Paul,
Acts 25:3
Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.
Acts 25:15
Against whom the chief priests and the rulers of the Jews made a statement when I was at Jerusalem, requesting me to give a decision against him.
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Exodus 22:21
Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
Job 24:3
They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
Job 24:21
He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.
Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Job 31:17
If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Job 31:18
(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
Job 31:21
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
Psalms 94:6
They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;
Psalms 146:9
The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
Jeremiah 49:11
Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.
Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
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Job 22:12
Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!
Job 22:13
And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
Psalms 10:12
Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.
Psalms 10:13
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
Psalms 59:7
See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
Psalms 94:7
And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.
Isaiah 29:15
Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
Ezekiel 8:12
And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.
Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.
Zephaniah 1:12
And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.
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Psalms 5:2
Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.
Psalms 5:3
My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.
Psalms 55:17
In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
Psalms 119:62
In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.
Psalms 119:147
Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words.
Psalms 119:148
In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
Daniel 6:13
Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God.
Mark 1:35
And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.
Mark 6:46
And after he had sent them away, he went up into a mountain for prayer.
Luke 11:6
Because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to put before him;
Acts 10:9
Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:
Acts 10:30
And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,
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Psalms 56:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath. Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.
Psalms 56:2
My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
Lamentations 1:1
See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!
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Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
Deuteronomy 16:20
Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
Psalms 72:2
May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.
Psalms 72:4
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
Proverbs 24:11
Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.
Proverbs 24:12
If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?
Proverbs 31:9
Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
Jeremiah 22:16
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
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Proverbs 19:28
A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.
Isaiah 28:14
Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
Isaiah 28:16
For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.
Isaiah 28:17
And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.
Isaiah 28:18
And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.
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Psalms 80:4
O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
Psalms 85:5
Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?
Isaiah 58:2
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.
Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
Isaiah 58:8
Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
Isaiah 58:9
Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;
Lamentations 3:44
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.
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1 Kings 8:28
Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day;
2 Chronicles 6:19
Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant and to his prayer for grace, O Lord my God, and give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant makes before you;
Psalms 74:20
Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.
Psalms 130:2
Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer.
Daniel 9:17
And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.
Daniel 9:18
O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.
Daniel 9:19
O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.
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Joel 3:12
Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.
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Psalms 6:9
The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.
Psalms 147:11
The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.
Isaiah 26:16
Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.
Isaiah 50:10
Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.
Matthew 7:8
Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
Luke 3:26
The son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,
Luke 3:37
The son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
Luke 18:39
And those who were in front made protests and said to him, Be quiet: but he said all the more, O Son of David, have mercy on me.
Luke 21:36
But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.
Acts 6:4
Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.
Acts 10:2
A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.
Philippians 4:6
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
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Mark 6:48
And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;
Acts 3:1
Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer;
Acts 10:3
He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!
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Lamentations 5:3
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
Mark 12:40
Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.
John 14:18
I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.
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Luke 19:2
A man, named Zacchaeus, who was the chief tax-farmer, and a man of wealth,
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Acts 7:24
And seeing one of them being attacked, he went to his help and gave the Egyptian a death-blow:
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Acts 12:5
So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.
Romans 8:37
But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.
Romans 12:12
Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
1 Corinthians 15:58
For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
Ephesians 1:16
Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers;
Ephesians 5:1
Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;
Colossians 1:23
If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
1 Timothy 5:5
Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.
2 Timothy 1:3
I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day
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Isaiah 10:1
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
Isaiah 10:3
And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
Jeremiah 5:29
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
Acts 21:28
Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.
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Proverbs 31:8
Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.
Jeremiah 21:12
O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;
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1 John 2:2
He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.
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Revelation 6:11
And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been.
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