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10 Then the king gave Ebed Melech from Sudan this command: |Take 30 men from here, and lift the prophet Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.| 11 So Ebed Melech took the men with him and went to the royal palace, to a room under the treasury. He took rags and torn clothes from there and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern. 12 Ebed Melech from Sudan said to Jeremiah, |Put these rags and torn clothes under your arms to protect you from the ropes.| Jeremiah did. 13 They used the ropes to pull Jeremiah up and lift him out of the cistern. Then Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the prison. Jeremiah 38:10-13, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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