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Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead.
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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.