Isaiah 29:12

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¹²Then you give the book to someone who can’t read, saying, “Please read this.”

He answers, “I can’t read.”

And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”

Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”

And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it, he will say, “I can’t read.”

When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, “We don’t know how to read.”

And if the document is given to one who does not know how to read, saying, “Read this now!” he says, “I do not know how to read.”

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,

Saying, Read this, I pray thee:

And he saith, I am not learned.

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