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Jonah 1:13

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Nevertheless 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.

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Verse 13. Hard. They were unwilling to destroy the prophet, ( Calmet.) fearing to incur fresh guilt by thus treating one who had intrusted his life to them. Jos. Ant. ix. 11.

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