OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 11:7

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to rebuke the decree for the slaying of babies, you gave them abundant water beyond all hope,

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Verse 7. River. The Nile, to which the Egyptians gave divine honours. Calmet.—Thou. Septuagint “disturbed with corrupted blood, in punishment of the infanticide decree, thou gavest,” and so forth

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