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Please listen to my prayer. I am your servant. I am praying in the day and in the night on behalf of your servants, the Israelites. I agree that we have all done wrong things. That includes me and my family. We have not obeyed you. We have done wicked things against you. We have not obeyed the commands, the laws and the rules that you gave to your servant Moses.[a]

Remember what you told your servant, Moses. You told him, “If the Israelites turn away from me, I will make them live among foreign people in many different places.

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  1. 1:7 See Exodus 20.

let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear(A) the prayer(B) your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess(C) the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you. We have acted very wickedly(D) toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.

“Remember(E) the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter(F) you among the nations,

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