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even at the hausera ... it is fast approaching .. and they are almost home. the dog rushes home ... to inform taupiri ... the slave has returned and is safe.
tae rawa ki hinuera... kua kakama te haere.. kua tata hoki ratou ki te wa kinga. ka oma atu te kuri nei ki te kainga... ki te whakamohio atu ki a taupiri... kua hoki mai te pononga me e waiora

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
kei mahue te huihui i a tatou ano, kei pera me te hanga a etahi; engari me whakahauhau tetahi i tetahi: kia nui rawa ano hoki i te mea ka kite koutou ka tata te ra

yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their god: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to god.
he rapu ano ia ta ratou i ahau i tenei ra, i tenei ra, e ahuareka ana hoki ki te mohio ki aku ara: me te mea he iwi e mahi ana i te tika, a kihai i whakarere i te whakaritenga a tona atua, e ui ana ratou ki ahau ki nga whakaritenga o te tika, e a huareka ana ki te awhi ki te atua