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fairness<00:14:44.279><c> that</c><00:14:44.879><c> have</c><00:14:45.059><c> to</c><00:14:45.399><c> overflow</c><00:14:45.820><c> from</c><00:14:46.139><c> our</c><00:14:46.399><c> attitude</c><00:14:46.820><c> and</c>

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Yahweh<00:15:32.879><c> greatly.</c><00:15:33.159><c> So</c><00:15:33.299><c> he</c><00:15:33.379><c> wasn't</c><00:15:33.600><c> a</c><00:15:33.740><c> man</c><00:15:33.879><c> who</c><00:15:34.039><c> was</c><00:15:34.299><c> puffed</c><00:15:34.580><c> up</c>

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he<00:16:11.139><c> fled</c><00:16:11.320><c> down</c><00:16:11.580><c> to</c><00:16:11.700><c> the</c><00:16:11.779><c> air</c><00:16:11.940><c> of</c><00:16:12.159><c> Horeb.</c>

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it<00:16:26.820><c> was</c><00:16:27.039><c> the</c><00:16:27.299><c> king</c><00:16:27.620><c> of</c><00:16:28.019><c> heaven.</c><00:16:30.639><c> There's</c><00:16:30.759><c> a</c><00:16:30.879><c> beautiful</c><00:16:31.139><c> quotation</c><00:16:31.759><c> in</c><00:16:32.080><c> Proverbs</c><00:16:32.379><c> 24</c>

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00:38:54.789 --> 00:38:56.949
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00:39:44.010 --> 00:39:48.010
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