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Anonymous adult freely tying linen cord around a completed modest grain basket, natural hands, no collector or weapon.
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2 Corinthians 9:5

A Gift Prepared Without Extortion

A Ready Gift and Cheerful Generosity · 2 Corinthians 9

Story guide: Visual essay: A freely prepared basket suggests readiness and voluntary generosity; the image does not reconstruct an extorted gift.

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5Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go to you ahead of us and arrange in advance the generous gift you had promised, so that it would be ready as a generous gift and not as something extorted.

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