OLD TESTAMENT

Baruch 6:27

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Those who serve them are also ashamed, for if they fall to the ground at any time, they can’t rise up again by themselves. If they are bowed down, they can’t make themselves straight; but the offerings are set before them, as if they were dead men.

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Verse 27. Take. Greek “salt.” They give none to the poor, for fear of their imposture being detected, though they allow even the unclean to eat. verse 28. Leviticus 12:2. Deuteronomy 14:29.

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