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Johanan and families consider the southward road while Jeremiah watches.
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Jeremiah 42:13-14

The tempting road

The Answer They Did Not Want · Jeremiah 42

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13But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ not obeying the voice of Yahweh your God—

14saying, ‘No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, and we will not hear the sound of the trumpet, and we will not be hungry for bread; and there we will live.’

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