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“Get up. Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach against it, for its people’s evil way has come up before me.”

But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish.[a] He paid the fare and boarded the ship to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.

But the Lord hurled a great wind onto the sea, and there was such a great storm on the sea that the ship was about to break apart.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 1:3 Tarshish was in the far western Mediterranean region, perhaps in Spain or Portugal. It was the most distant place known to Israel.