21 Car il leur eût mieux valu de n'avoir point connu la voie de la justice, que de se détourner, après l'avoir connue, du saint commandement qui leur avait été donné.
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It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.
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