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1 And in those days a king from the east will come against them and cover their land with (his) cavalry.

2 And he will burn their colony with fire together with the holy temple of the Lord, and

he will carry away all the holy vessels.

3 And he will cast forth all the people, and he will take them to the land of his nativity, yea he will take the two tribes with him.

4 Then the two tribes will call upon the ten tribes, and will be indignant as a lioness on the dusty plains, being hungry and thirsty.

5 And they will cry aloud: Righteous and holy is the Lord, for, inasmuch as ye have sinned, we too, in like manner, have been carried away with you, together with our children.

6 Then the ten tribes shall mourn on hearing the reproaches of the two tribes,

7 And they will say: What have we done unto you, brethren? Surely this tribulation has not come on all the house of Israel?

8 And all the tribes will mourn crying unto heaven and saying:

9 God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, remember Thy covenant which Thou didst make with them, and the oath which Thou didst swear unto them by Thyself, that their seed should never fail in the land which Thou hast given them.

10 Then they will remember me, saying, in that day, tribe unto tribe and each man unto his neighbour:

11 Is not this that which Moses did then declare unto us in prophecies, who suffered many things in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness during forty years:

12 And assuredly called heaven and earth to witness against us, that we should not transgress His commandments, in the which he was a mediator unto us?

13 Behold these things have befallen us after his death according to his words and according to his declaration, as he declared to us at that time, yea behold these have taken place even to our being carried away captive into the country of the east.

14 Who will be also in bondage for about seventy and seven years.

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