Holy Scripture

Jonah 1:6

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“"So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest you, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not." LXX: "and the helmsman come to him and he said to him, what are you doing sleeping? Get up, and call upon your God. If he can find a way to save us then w…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 1

Source: Septuagint

Original

6And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snorest thou? arise, and call upon thy God, that God may save us, and we perish not.

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In context

4And the Lord raised up a wind on the sea; and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was in danger of being broken.

5And the sailors were alarmed, and cried every one to his god, and cast out the wares that were in the ship into the sea, that it might be lightened of them. But Jonah was gone down into the hold of the ship, and was asleep, and snored.

— Jonah 1:6 —

7And each man said to his neighbor, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

8And they said to him, Tell us what is thine occupation, and whence comest thou, and of what country and what people art thou?

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