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Jeremiah 42:12-15 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

12. I will also show you compassion, so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own soil.

13. But if you are going to say, "We will not stay in this land," so as not to listen to the voice of the Lord your God,

14. saying, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there";

15. then in that case listen to the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, "If you really set your mind to enter Egypt and go in to reside there,

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