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    "ko": "열왕기하",
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    "zh": "列王纪下",
    "zh-Hant": "列王紀下",
    "he": "מְלָכִים ב"
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    "ja": "ホイール・オブ・ヘブン訳",
    "ko": "휠 오브 헤븐 번역",
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  "sourceCitation": "Sefaria v3 API (Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra), drawing on the Westminster Leningrad Codex (Public Domain). Commentary references: Cogan & Tadmor, *II Kings* (AB 11, 1988); Montgomery & Gehman, *Kings* (ICC, 1951); Burney, *Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Kings* (1903); Gray, *I & II Kings* (OTL); Sweeney, *I & II Kings* (OTL).",
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    "en": "The Raëlian-canon-cited chapters of 2 Kings: the end of the Eliyahu (Elijah) cycle, Elisha's miracles, and the fall of Shomron (Samaria)"
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    "en": "An English translation of the four chapters of 2 Kings that the three Raëlian canon books cite, translated as whole chapters: **2 Kings 1** (Achazyahu (Ahaziah), Ba'al-Zevuv and the fire on the captains of fifty), **2 Kings 2** (Eliyahu (Elijah) taken up in the whirlwind to the heavens, the chariot and horses of fire, and Elisha's succession), **2 Kings 4** (Elisha: the widow's oil, the Shunammite's son raised, the pot and the twenty loaves), and **2 Kings 17** (the fall of Shomron (Samaria) and the exile of Yisra'el, with the worship of all the host of the heavens). These are the chapters behind the readings of *The Book Which Tells the Truth*, chapter 3. The rest of the book is not translated.\n\nSource: Sefaria v3 API, Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra (Westminster Leningrad Codex base, Public Domain); Ketiv/Qere sites translate the Qere and are noted. Reference translation: ASV (1901). Proper names are transliterated from the Hebrew, with the English form in each chapter title."
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