Jonah’s Prayer from within the Fish
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For the narrative context of this prayer, see Jonah.
2Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish. 3He said:
11The Lord commanded the fish, and it spewed Jonah out upon dry land.
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Reprinted from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.
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