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recalling the words pronounced by the prophet Amos against Bethel:

“I will turn your religious feasts into mourning,
    and all your singing into weeping.”

And I wept. When the sun had set, I went out, dug a grave, and buried him. My neighbors jeered at me, saying, “Is he still unafraid? Once previously he had been hunted down under the penalty of death for this identical offense; yet here he is, after his escape, once again burying the dead.”

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