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12 He said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea so that the sea will calm down for you,[a] because I know it’s my fault[b] you are in this severe storm.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 1:12 tn Heb “quiet for you”; cf. NAB “that it may quiet down for you.”
  2. Jonah 1:12 sn Heb “on my account.” Jonah and the sailors appear to show dialectical sensitivity to each other in how they say this. See the note at v. 8.