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Amos 5:3

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3 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

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Marriage #51

  
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51. Those who lived in celibacy continue for long to live thus; but if in the world they desired to get married, they too finally enter upon marriage.

  
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