2 Kings 2:10

nevertheless. The verse needs no italics.

see. clearly see.

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¹⁰ And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.

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