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a prince over fifty men, and a worshipful man in cheer (a leader of fifty men, and an honourable man), and a counsellor, and a wise man of principal craftsmen, and a prudent man of mystic, either ghostly, speech.

And I shall give children to be the princes of them, and men of women’s conditions shall be lords of them. (And I shall make children to be their leaders, and young boys to be their lords and masters.)

And the people shall fall down, a man to a man, each man to his neighbour; a child shall make noise against an eld man, and an unnoble man against a noble man. (And the people shall fall down, one by one, each by his neighbour; a child shall not respect an old man, and an ignoble man shall not respect a noble man.)

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the captain of fifty(A) and the man of rank,(B)
    the counselor, skilled craftsman(C) and clever enchanter.(D)

“I will make mere youths their officials;
    children will rule over them.”(E)

People will oppress each other—
    man against man, neighbor against neighbor.(F)
The young will rise up against the old,
    the nobody against the honored.

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