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10 But Yahweh said, “You are troubled about the plant, for which you did not labor nor cause it to grow. It grew up in a night and it perished in a night![a] 11 And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, the great city, in which there are[b] more than one hundred and twenty thousand[c] people who do not know right from left,[d] plus many animals?”

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 4:10 Literally “Which was a son of a night and as a son of a night it perished”
  2. Jonah 4:11 Literally “which there are in it”
  3. Jonah 4:11 Literally “than two ten myriad” (12 x 10,000)
  4. Jonah 4:11 hand” is often supplied, but it is not clear just what deficiency is meant by this expression, which occurs only here in biblical Hebrew