OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 26:16

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I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

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Verse 16. Heat. Hebrew kaddachath, is rendered “scab and jaundice,” by the Sept.: and by others “a dangerous wind,” like that which causes so many diseases in Egypt. The precise meaning of some terms in this verse is not well known.

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