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The priests sell the sacrifices that are offered to these gods and use the money themselves. Likewise their wives preserve some of the meat with salt, but give none to the poor or helpless.
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Sacrifices to them may even be touched by women in their periods or at childbirth. Since you know by these things that they are not gods, do not fear them.
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For how can they be called gods? Women serve meals for gods of silver and gold and wood;
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and in their temples the priests sit with their clothes torn, their heads and beards shaved, and their heads uncovered.
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They howl and shout before their gods as some do at a funeral banquet.
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