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Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
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Verse 2. Calves. A cutting reproach! Those who could stoop to adore a calf, might be so blind as to sacrifice men! Hebrew “sacrifice, ye men who,” and so forth Jeroboam issues this edict. Calmet.—Septuagint “immolate men; calves are wanting.” Bible.
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