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The Sonnini Manuscript: The Lost Chapter 29 of Acts
Acts29
Jewish Publication Society (1917)
JPS
[No book] [1]And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev;
[No book] [2]When Bethel-sarezer, and Regem-melech and his men, had sent to entreat the favour of ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎,
[No book] [3]And to speak unto the priests of the house of ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: 'Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?'
[No book] [4]Then came the word of ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ of hosts unto me, saying:
[No book] [5]'Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me?
[No book] [6]And when ye eat, and when ye did drink, are ye not they that eat, and they that drink?
[No book] [7]Should ye not hearken to the words which ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ hath proclaimed by the former prophets, wh Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the Lowland were inhabited?'
[No book] [8]And the word of ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ came unto Zechariah, saying:
[No book] [9]'Thus hath ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ of hosts spoken, saying: Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother;
[No book] [10]And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
[No book] [11]But they refused to attend, and turned stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
[No book] [12]Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ of hosts had sent by His spirit by the hand of the former prophets; therefore came there great wrath from ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ of hosts.
[No book] [13]And it came to pass that, as He called, and they would not hear; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ of hosts;
[No book] [14]But I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned; for they laid the pleasant land desolate.'
Translation: Jewish Publication Society (1917)
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