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10 Then the king gave Ebed Melech the Ethiopian the following order: |Take thirty men with you from here and go pull the prophet Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.| 11 So Ebed Melech took the men with him and went to a room under the treasure room in the palace. He got some worn-out clothes and old rags from there and let them down by ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern. 12 Ebed Melech called down to Jeremiah, |Put these rags and worn-out clothes under your armpits to pad the ropes. Jeremiah did as Ebed Melech instructed. 13 So they pulled Jeremiah up from the cistern with ropes. Jeremiah, however, still remained confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse. Jeremiah 38:10-13, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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