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in the calamity.”^[1] And I said to him, “God [judge] between thee and me!” And this is what I have to tell.’

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Then came forward the thirteenth officer and said, ‘I will tell you a story that a man of my friends told me. (Quoth he)

1. i.e. in the punishment that overtook me.