NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 12:5

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Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?

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Verse 5. Break the sabbath; that is they do that, which if the divine worship did not require, would not be allowed on the sabbath, as the work they do, of its own nature, is servile.

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