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You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
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Verse 26. An anathema. That is, a thing devoted to destruction; and which carries along with it a curse. Challoner.—Like it. The curse rested upon those who kept any of the spoils. This brought death upon Achan, (Joshua 7:1,) and upon some of the soldiers of Judas the Machabee, who had secreted some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews, 2 Maccabees 12:40. Calmet.
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