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UsreN, TM auDiNe ‘SOMETHING Uta MY COMMUNITY, SOMETHING THA GOES BEYOND THe NEEDS WE HAD NTILAFEW WEEKS AGO. TTHAVE NO Meae ober Vou Suc wavenT ‘ATHING. you SEEN THE WORLD OUTSIDE, SIT is You ‘Two ALONE, WoULDN'T SURVIVE ‘A MONTHIE ‘SWARM CROSSED OUR PATH Wane. soseries Ue WECOULD 8e A ‘STRONG. AND FIGURED our How TO S707 THIS PUNISHMENT. Were. weos's HANDS, Now MORE THAN AND SHE, 15 AUST LIKE ‘YOu AND. i ties TOO, LooK ar THEM PULL OF AOBE AND TRUST.EASTBOUND. WE FOUND A 6005 $70" I ROXBURY, VeAK SODDANN, concrere FORT AES, ARENT You AFRAID THEY MGT BE ATTACKED? ORDER TO TAKE BACK CONTROL ‘OVER THis CRAZY WORLD, We Must Go, BACK TO THINKING AS ‘un CowauERWE [ANCESTORS BID BEFORE US ‘CONSTANTINE, CAARLEMAGNE. ‘ALEXANDER.ty BRIIERO BKOM BRO ANA DyeTHE TIME 1S Ripe. THE Tite was ‘COME. 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WOMAN, THROUGH THE \SDOMEN. “AND THE, Uae CEASED AMONG THE: DeLiTes, “THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, PHINEAS, ON OF AARON THE "TURNED NW ANGER AWAY FROM THe !SRAELITES, BECAUSE HE ‘WAG ANIMATED BY MY ZEAL AMONG HEM, AND LIN MY JEALOUS) Dib NOT EXTERMINATE "THE ISRAELITES: “TWENTY= FOUR THOUSAND Perce Died OF THRT SCOURGE.“THEREFORE. TELL HIM THAT T ESTABLIS WITH FIM A COVENANT OF PEACE, WHICH WiLL BE FOR HIM AND FOR iS LINEAGE APTER IMA COVENANT OF A PERPETUAL PRIESTHOOD, BECAUSE WE HAS HAD ZEAL FOR IS. GOD AND HAS MADE. "THE ATONING RITE.” Leave. (M-MAX-— WAT & ‘way Do Your HER. DISAPPONTMENT, CONTINUE BEING ‘30 BUDE? riilouser TO MAKE A GREAT DISCIPLE ‘OF YOU 200K, WHAT THEY VE DONE TO THE woRtDr 200K Wow GoD 18 PUNISHING US!FUCK 1, ‘shes ust RaoeNot CANT etleve youD LL You OWN. IMPURITY. No. wat no ‘THERE'S No TaRNine ‘Bach. were GONNA BE ENEMIES, NSH BUT THERES, ‘STIL TIME OR YOu, MAKTHERE No. WAY TO ESCAPE. you ust BURNED BOWNA SACRED TEMPLE? 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