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¹⁹"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

²⁰A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

²¹and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man`s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

²²It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham`s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

²³In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

²⁴He cried and said, `Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.`

²⁵But Abraham said, `Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

²⁶Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.`

²⁷He said, `I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father`s house;

²⁸for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.`

²⁹But Abraham said to him, `They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.`

³⁰He said, `No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.`

³¹He said to him, `If they don`t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.`"