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and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.”
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Verse 15. Earth. Holy men have thus desired to die, as was the case with Moses, Elias, Job, and Saint Paul provided God was willing. Menochius.
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