Jonah 1:6-8
Legacy Standard Bible
6 So the captain came near to him and said to him, “How is it that you are deeply sleeping? Arise, (A)call on your god. Perhaps your (B)god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”
7 Then each man said to the other, “Come, let us [a](C)have the lots fall so we may know on whose account this calamitous evil has struck us.” So they [b]had the lots fall, and the (D)lot fell on Jonah. 8 Then they said to him, “(E)Tell us, now! On whose account has this calamitous evil struck us? What is your (F)occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”
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Jonah 1:6-8
King James Version
6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
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