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Amos 5:6

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6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

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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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