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Jonah 1:15

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1:15 So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

Jonah 2:10

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2:10 Then the Lord commanded 1  the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.

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[2:10]  1 tn Heb “spoke to.” The fish functions as a literary foil to highlight Jonah’s hesitancy to obey God up to this point. In contrast to Jonah who immediately fled when God commanded him, the fish immediately obeyed.



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