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12 Do not ye covet death, in the error of your life, neither get ye perdition in (or with) the works of your hands; [Willeth not (or Desireth not) (to) love death, in error of your life, nor purchase ye perdition in the works of your hands;]

13 for God made not death, neither he is glad in the perdition of living men. [for God made not death, nor gladdeth in the losing (or in the destroying) of men alive.]

14 For why God made (out) of nought all things, that those should be; and he made the nations of the world able to be healed. For why medicine of destroying is not in those men, neither the realm of hells is in (the) earth. [Forsooth God made, that all things were; and able to health he made the nations of the roundness of lands. Forsooth there is not in them leeching of destruction, nor the realm of hell is in the earth.]

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