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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1997-10-08  |  16.3 MB  |  1 channel  |  44,100 sample rate  |  3 minutes, 13 seconds
Transcription: Now the Israelites hated the Moabites perhaps worse than any other people in history. They especially hated the Moabite king, King Eglon. Now the Moabites had ruled over the Israelites for 18 years and they had suffered under this rule. They had wanted to be free and one day a freedom fighter was sent to take care of the situation. His name was Ehud. Ehud was specifically designed for this because you see he was left-handed. Now in the ancient world left-handed people were often considered to have magical powers, to be unusual and so he was chosen for that reason to go as an assassin to take t ...