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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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Those who lived long ago in your holy land
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you hated 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, you willed to destroy by the hands of our ancestors,
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so that the land most precious of all to you might receive a worthy colony of the servants of God.
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[a].
Gk [slaughterers]
[b].
Meaning of Gk uncertain
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, 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.