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Deuteronomy 31:20

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For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

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Verse 20. Despise, (detrahent,) “detract,” ( Bible.) and represent me as an unjust and weak God. Hebrew “they will despise, or blaspheme,” and so forth Septuagint “they will irritate me.” Calmet.

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