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Isaiah 58:5New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
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5 Should the fast that I choose be like this,
As a day for someone to afflict himself,*
To bow down his head like a rush,
To make his bed on sackcloth and ashes?
Is this what you call a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?
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Luke 18:11, 12New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
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11 The Pharisee stood and began to pray these things to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like everyone else—extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give the tenth of all things I acquire.’+
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