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“‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
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Verse 20. Thy sons: so he calls them to shew his indignation, though he acknowledges them for his, (verse 21) to enhance the crime. Who could have thought that such cruel sacrifices would ever take place! 4 Kennicott. 23. Calmet.—Adulteresses bring in the children of others; but the Jews sacrifice their own to idols. 4 Kennicott. 16. and so forth Worthington.
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