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¹ And there is a word of YHWH to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,² "Rise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness has come up before Me."³ And Jonah rises to flee to Tarshish from the face of YHWH, and goes down [to] Joppa, and finds a ship going [to] Tarshish, and he gives its fare, and goes down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the face of YHWH.

⁴ And YHWH has cast a great wind on the sea, and there is a great storm in the sea, and the ship has reckoned to be broken;⁵ and the mariners are afraid, and they each cry to his god, and cast the goods that [are] in the ship into the sea, to make [it] light of them; and Jonah has gone down to the sides of the vessel, and he lies down, and is fast asleep.⁶ And the chief of the company draws near to him and says to him, "What are you [doing], O sleeper? Rise, call to your God, it may be God considers Himself of us, and we do not perish."⁷ And they each say to his neighbor, "Come, and we cast lots, and we know on whose account this evil [is] on us." And they cast lots, and the lot falls on Jonah.⁸ And they say to him, "Now declare to us, on whose account [is] this evil on us? What [is] your occupation, and where do you come from? What [is] your country, seeing you are not of this people?"⁹ And he says to them, "I—a Hebrew, and I fear YHWH, God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land."¹⁰ And the men fear a great fear, and say to him, "What [is] this you have done!" For the men have known that he is fleeing from the face of YHWH, for he has told them.

¹¹ And they say to him, "What do we do to you that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more turbulent?"¹² And he says to them, "Lift me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea ceases from you; for I know that on my account this great storm [is] on you."¹³ And the men row to turn back to the dry land, and are not able, for the sea is more and more turbulent against them.¹⁴ And they cry to YHWH, and say, "Ah, now, O YHWH, please do not let us perish for this man's life, and do not lay innocent blood on us! For You, YHWH, as You have pleased, You have done."¹⁵ And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceases from its raging;¹⁶ and the men fear YHWH [with] a great fear, and sacrifice a sacrifice to YHWH, and vow vows.¹⁷ And YHWH appoints a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.