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“And at your nativity, when you were born, your navel was not cut. You were not washed in water, to soften yourself. You were neither salted with salt nor swaddled in cloths.

“No eye pitied you, to do any of these for you, to have compassion upon you. But you were cast out in the open field, for you were loathed on the day that you were born.

“And when I passed by you, I saw you trampled, in your own blood. And I said to you when you were in your blood, ‘You shall live.’ Even when you were in your blood, I said to you, ‘You shall live.’

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