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Jonah 1:3
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3 But Jonah did not want to obey the Lord's command. He decided to run away to Tarshish.[a] He went down to Joppa.[b] There he found a ship that was ready to sail to Tarshish. After he had paid for the journey, he got into the ship. He wanted to go on the ship to Tarshish, to get far away from the Lord.

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  1. 1:3 Tarshish was a port that was far away to the west.
  2. 1:3 Joppa was a port in Israel, on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
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