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And behold, the whole family has risen against thine handmaid, and they said, ‘Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also.’ And so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the earth.”

And the king said unto the woman, “Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.”

And the woman of Tekoa said unto the king, “My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me and on my father’s house, and the king and his throne be guiltless.”

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