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The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor.
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The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing therefore by these things that they are not gods, fear them not.
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For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood:
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And priests sit in their temples, having their garments rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.
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And they roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.
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The priests take away their garments, and clothe their wives and their children.
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And whether it be evil that one doth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: neither can they set up a king nor put him down:
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In like manner they can neither give riches, nor requite evil. If a man make a vow to them, and perform it not, they cannot require it.
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They cannot deliver a man from death nor save the weak from the mighty.
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They cannot restore the blind man to his sight: nor deliver a man from distress.
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They shall not pity the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.