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| 174. | instead of thee making a tempest, may a famine happen, and the country be destroyed;
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| 175. | instead of thee making a tempest, may pestilence increase, and men be destroyed.'
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| 176. | I did not peer into the wisdom of the gods,
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| 177. | reverent and attentive a dream they sent, and the wisdom of the gods he heard.
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| 178. | When his judgment was accomplished, Bel went up to the midst of the ship,
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| 179. | he took my hand and brought me out, me
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| 180. | he brought out, he caused to bring my wife to my side,
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| 181. | he purified the country, he established in a covenant and took the people
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| 182. | in the presence of Sisit and the people.
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| 183. | When Sisit and his wife and the people to be like the gods were carried away,
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| 184. | then dwelt Sisit in a remote place at the mouth of the rivers.
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| 185. | They took me and in a remote place at the mouth of the rivers they seated me.
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| 186. | When to thee whom the gods have chosen thee, and
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| 187. | the life which thou has sought after, thou shalt gain
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| 188. | this do, for six days and seven nights
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| 189. | like I say also, in bonds bind him
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| 190. | the way like a storm shall be laid upon him."
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| 191. | Sisit after this manner, said to his wife
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| 192. | "I announce that the chief who grasps at life
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| 193. | the way like a storm shall be laid upon him."
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| 194. | His wife after this manner, said to Sisit afar off,
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| 195. | "Purify him and let the man be sent away,
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| 196. | the road that lie came, may he return in peace,
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| 197. | the great gate open, and may he return to his country."
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| 198. | Sisit after this manner, said to his wife,
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| 199. | "The cry of a man alarms thee,
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| 200. | this do, his scarlet cloth place on his head."
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| 201. | And the day when he ascended the side of the ship
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| 202. | she did, his scarlet cloth she placed on his head,
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| 203. | and the day when he ascended on the side of the ship,
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The next four lines describe seven things done to Izdubar
