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- And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying:
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- "Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation that I bid thee."
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- So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD.
Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days" journey.
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- And Jonah began to enter into the city a day"s journey, and he proclaimed, and said: "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."
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- And the people of Nineveh believed God;
and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
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- And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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- And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: "Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing;
let them not feed, nor drink water;
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- but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God;
yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
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- Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?"
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- And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way;
and God repented of the evil, which He said He would do unto them;
and He did it not.
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