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1 The LORD said to Jonah a second time, 2 Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.| 3 So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the LORD had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city--it required three days to walk through it!) 4 When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, |At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!| 5 The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes. 7 He issued a proclamation and said, |In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water. Jonah 3:1-7, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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