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Ezra 9:12

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give not: Exodus 23:32, Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3; Joshua 23:12-13

nor seek their peace: Deuteronomy 23:6; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 John 1:10-11

that ye may: Deuteronomy 6:1-2; Joshua 1:6-9

and eat: Isaiah 1:19

and leave it: Genesis 18:18-19; Psalms 112:1-2; Proverbs 13:22, Proverbs 20:7

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