Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version The priests sell the sacrifices that are offered to these gods and use the money themselves. Likewise their wives preserve some of the meat with salt, but give none to the poor or helpless. New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not. Baruch 6:26Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead. Baruch 6:27 The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor. Baruch 6:29 For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood: Baruch 6:30 And priests sit in their temples, having their garments rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads. Context Baruch 6…27The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor. 28The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not. 29For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood:… Cross References Baruch 6:26 Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead. Baruch 6:27 The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor. Baruch 6:29 For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood: Baruch 6:30 And priests sit in their temples, having their garments rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads. |
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