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Wisdom 11:16

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that they might learn that by what things a man sins, by these he is punished.

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Verse 16. Serpents. The Egyptians adored asps, and fed them at their tables, without receiving any harm. Ælian. Hist. xvii. 5.—Dumb beasts. that is frogs, sciniphs, flies, and locusts. Challoner.

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