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10 As for me, I am staying at Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us; but as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and live in the towns that you have taken over.’ 11 Likewise, when all the Judeans who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan as governor over them, 12 then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they had been scattered and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah; and they gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.

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10 I myself will stay at Mizpah(A) to represent you before the Babylonians who come to us, but you are to harvest the wine,(B) summer fruit and olive oil, and put them in your storage jars,(C) and live in the towns you have taken over.”(D)

11 When all the Jews in Moab,(E) Ammon, Edom(F) and all the other countries(G) heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as governor over them, 12 they all came back to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, from all the countries where they had been scattered.(H) And they harvested an abundance of wine and summer fruit.

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