OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 31:5

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lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

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Verse 5. Poor. Solon condemned to death, at Athens, the prince who should get drunk; and the Areopagites excluded from their assembly a judge who had dined in a tavern. Laert. 1. Athen. xiii. 2.

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