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Then they asked him, “Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?”

Jonah 1:8 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીયૂના ૧:૮
એટલે તેઓએ યૂનાને કહ્યું, “કૃપા કરીને અમને જણાવ કે તું કોણ છે કે જેના લીધે આ સંકટ આવી પડ્યું છે? તારો વ્યવસાય શો છે? તું ક્યાંથી આવ્યો છે? તારો દેશ કયો છે? તું કયા લોકોમાંથી આવે છે?”
हिन्दीयोना १:८
तब उन्होंने उससे कहा, “हमें बता कि किसके कारण यह विपत्ति हम पर पड़ी है? तेरा व्यवसाय क्या है? और तू कहाँ से आया है? तू किस देश और किस जाति का है?”

In context

6So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

7They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

8Then they asked him, “Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?”

9He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

10Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

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