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Jonah 1:16

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Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

Context

13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

14Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

15So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

16Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

17Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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