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They would set up their tents beside them and destroy the food of the field as far as Gaza. They would leave no food for Israel, and no sheep, cattle or donkeys. They would come with their animals and their tents. They were like locusts, there were so many of them. There were too many of them and their camels to number. And they came into the land to destroy it. So Israel became very poor because of Midian. The people of Israel cried to the Lord.

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They camped on the land and ruined the crops(A) all the way to Gaza(B) and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.(C) It was impossible to count them or their camels;(D) they invaded the land to ravage it. Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out(E) to the Lord for help.

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