OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 2:23

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“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

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Verse 23. Valley of Hinnom, under the very walls of Jerusalem. Calmet.—Runner. Hebrew “dromedary,” which takes its name from its swiftness. Bible.—The female camel continues all day with the male, and cannot be approached. Aristot. Pliny x. 63.—Juda is represented as no less libidinous. Calmet.

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