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I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.
And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
