Letter of Jeremiah 45
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Carpenters and goldsmiths make them. They can be only what these designers want them to be.
They are made by carpenters and goldsmiths; they can be nothing but what the artisans wish them to be.
Those who make them will certainly not live very long themselves;
They are made by carpenters and goldsmiths; they can be nothing but what the craftsmen wish them to be.
Forsooth those idols be made of (or by) smiths, and of (or by) goldsmiths. They shall be none other thing, no but that that (the) priests will (or desire) that they be. [Forsooth of carpenters and goldsmiths they be made. They shall none other thing be, no but that that priests will for to be.]
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