OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 16:6

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“‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

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Verse 6. Thy blood, unwashed after being born. verse 4. Calmet.—The Jews were solicitous to increase their numbers, and exposed none. Tacit. Hist. v.—But other nations did, if they thought the child would be troublesome, or a disgrace. Calmet.—The prophet sends this admonition from Chaldea, and shews how God had selected his people from among the barbarous nations, and decorated them with many privileges of the law, sacrifices, and so forth Worthington.

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