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Then Ezra arose from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. Although he went there, bhe did not eat bread nor drink water, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
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Deuteronomy 9:18
Deuteronomy 9
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"aI fell down before the Lord, bas at the first, forty days and nights; cI neither ate bread nor drank water, dbecause of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.