OLD TESTAMENT

Micah 6:7

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Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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Verse 7. Fat. Hebrew “torrents of oil.”—First-born, like Jephte, or the king of Moab. Judith 11 and 4 Kennicott. 3:27. Saturn taught the Phœnicians this impiety. Eus. præp. iv. 16. Calmet.

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