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Pleading
Pleading [nave]
PLEADING,Deut. 17:8.
Of the guilty, Josh. 7:19-21.
Jesus declined to plead, Matt. 26:62; Mark 15:2; Luke 23:3; John 18:33, 34.
Prisoners required to plead, Acts 7:1.
See: Defense.
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