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Wisdom 12:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 12:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 their merciless slaughter of children,
and their cannibalistic feasting on human flesh and blood.[a]
Those initiates of secret rituals,
6 those parents who slaughtered defenseless children,
you willed to destroy by the hands of our ancestors,
7 so that the land cherished by you above all others
might receive a worthy colony of children of God.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 12:5 And their cannibalistic feasting on human flesh and blood: there is no consensus about the translation of this line, which is obscure in the Greek text and in all other translations of it. In any case, crimes of this kind were not unheard of in the ancient pagan world.
