5 merciless slaughters of children and sacrificial banquets of men’s flesh and of blood— (WEB) 6 allies in an impious fellowship, and murderers of their own helpless babes, it was your counsel to destroy by the hands of our fathers; (WEB) 7 that the land which in your sight is most precious of all might receive a worthy colony of God’s servants. (WEB)
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