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and say,

[a]What was your mother?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions;
She reared her cubs.
So she brought up one of her cubs;
He became a lion,
And he learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.
Then nations heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they (A)brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.

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  1. Ezekiel 19:2 Or Why did your mother, a lioness, lie down among lions; among young lions rear her cubs?