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Those who fish will mourn;
    all who cast hooks in the Nile will lament,
    and those who spread nets on the water will languish.

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The Lord God has sworn by his holiness:
    The time is surely coming upon you,
when they shall take you away with hooks,
    even the last of you with fish-hooks.

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27 However, so that we do not give offence to them, go to the lake and cast a hook; take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a coin;[a] take that and give it to them for you and me.’

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 17:27 Gk stater; the stater was worth two didrachmas

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