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15 then now, listen to the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “If you really set your face to enter (A)Egypt, and you will enter to sojourn there, 16 then the (B)sword, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will [a]follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there. 17 So all the men who set their face to go to Egypt to sojourn there will die by the (C)sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and they will (D)have no survivors or any who escaped from the calamity that I am going to bring on them.”’”

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  1. Jeremiah 42:16 Lit cling

15 then hear the word of the Lord,(A) you remnant of Judah. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and you do go to settle there, 16 then the sword(B) you fear(C) will overtake you there, and the famine(D) you dread will follow you into Egypt, and there you will die.(E) 17 Indeed, all who are determined to go to Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, famine and plague;(F) not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’

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