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10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,[a] ‘Take three men with you from here, and pull the prophet Jeremiah up from the cistern before he dies.’ 11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe of[b] the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes. 12 Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian[c] said to Jeremiah, ‘Just put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.’ Jeremiah did so.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 38:10 Or Nubian; Heb Cushite
  2. Jeremiah 38:11 Cn: Heb to under
  3. Jeremiah 38:12 Or Nubian; Heb Cushite

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