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and from all the created birds you named for yourself one dove, and from all the flocks that have been made you provided for yourself one sheep,
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from all the peoples that have multiplied you acquired for yourself one people, and to this people that you desired you gave the Law celebrated by all.
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Now, Lord, why did you give the one to the many? Why dishonor the one root above all the rest, and scatter your only one among the many?
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Those who have denied your promises have trampled those who believed in your covenants!
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If you really hate your people, they should be punished with your own hands.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Lat prepare, apparently because of a corruption in the Gk