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thou didst hate for their detestable practices, their works of sorcery and unholy rites,
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their merciless slaughter of children, and their sacrificial feasting on human flesh and blood. These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult,
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these parents who murder helpless lives, thou didst will to destroy by the hands of our fathers,
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that the land most precious of all to thee might receive a worthy colony of the servants of God.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.