OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 12:5

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merciless slaughters of children and sacrificial banquets of men’s flesh and of blood—

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Verse 5. Consecration. Lit. sacrament, or land. That is, the land sacred to thee, in which thy temple was to be established, and man’s redemption to be wrought. Challoner.

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