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When those who bore the LORD’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
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Verse 13. Paces. So altars of turf (Grot.) were erected at this distance from each other, on each side of the road. The pagans have sometimes treated their emperors and deities with the like respect. Sueton. in Otho and Calig.—Paris thus addresses Helena in Ovid’s Heroic Epistles.
Ibis Dardanias ingens Regina per urbes,
Teque novam vulgus credet adesse Deam,
Quaque feres gressus, adolebunt cynnama flammæ,
Cœsaque sanguineam victima planget humum.
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