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24 She left the room and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?”

Her mother said, “The head of John the Immerser!”

25 Immediately she rushed to the king and requested, “I want you to give me, right now, the head of John the Immerser on a platter!”

26 The king became very sorrowful; but because of his oaths and those reclining with him, he didn’t want to refuse her.

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