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1 In King Darius' fourth year, on the fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah. 2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the LORD's favor 3 by asking both the priests of the temple of the LORD who rules over all and the prophets, |Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?| 4 The word of the LORD who rules over all then came to me, 5 Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: 'When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me--for me, indeed? 6 And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?'| Zechariah 7:1-6, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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