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You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’
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Verse 19. Violated me. That is, dishonoured and discredited me. Challoner.—Prot. “and will ye pollute?” and so forth Bible.—They employed the name of God to give credit to their lies, for the smallest advantage.—Souls, and so forth That is, to sentence souls to death, which are not to die: and to promise life to them who are not to live. Challoner.—They contradicted Jeremias, who exhorted the people to surrender. Calmet.
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