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Wisdom 12:5-7
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Wisdom 12:5-7
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
5 their merciless slaughter[a] of children,
and their sacrificial feasting on human flesh and blood.
These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult,[b]
6 these parents who murder helpless lives,
thou didst will to destroy by the hands of our fathers,
7 that the land most precious of all to thee
might receive a worthy colony of the servants[c] of God.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 12:5 Cn: Gk slaughterers
- Wisdom 12:5 The Greek text of this line is uncertain
- Wisdom 12:7 Or children
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1965, 1966 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.
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