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Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Therefore. He foretells of the event, and approves of the chastisement of the impenitent, ( Calmet.) whose “impurity might be a bad precedent for others. Saint Jerome See Calmet. 17:18.
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