OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 20:3

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David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

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Verse 3. As I may say, is not in Hebrew Septuagint “the space between me and thy father is filled up, unto death.” We can never more have any union, nor dwell together in safety. Bible.

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