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The priests sell the sacrifices that are offered to these gods and use the money; and likewise their wives preserve some with salt, but give none to the poor or helpless.
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Sacrifices to them may be touched by women in menstruation or at childbirth. Since you know by these things that they are not gods, do not fear them.
30
For why should they be called gods? Women serve meals for gods of silver and gold and wood;
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and in their temples the priests sit with their clothes rent, their heads and beards shaved, and their heads uncovered.
32
They howl and shout before their gods as some do at a funeral feast for a man who has died.
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.