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The king said to her, “What is your trouble?” And she answered, “I am a woman whose husband has died. Your woman servant had two sons. But they fought together in the field and there was no one to pull them apart. So one hit the other and killed him. Now the whole family has come against your woman servant. They say, ‘Give us the one who killed his brother. We must put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ So I would be without a son to receive what belonged to his parents when I die. They would put out the last of the fire which is left to me. My husband would be left without a name and with no children on the earth.”

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