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Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,
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"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you."
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So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent.
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And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
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So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
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Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.