Matthew 24:20

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the (h) sabbath day:

(h) It was not lawful to take a journey on the sabbath day; Josephus, book 13.

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²⁰ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

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