OLD TESTAMENT

Malachi 2:3

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Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

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Verse 3. Shoulder. I will cast away the shoulder, which in the law was appointed to be your portion, and fling it at you in my anger: and will reject both you and your festivals like dung. Challoner.—Hebrew now reads for shoulder, zerah, “grain,” or seed. Calmet.—“I will menace you with the shoulder, and will spread dirt on your faces, even the dirt of your feasts,” (Aquila) or “the ventricle of your festivals.” Septuagint Bible.

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or, seed

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