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Deuteronomy 7:25Deut.7.25

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Vous brûlerez au feu les images taillées de leurs dieux. Tu ne convoiteras point et tu ne prendras point pour toi l'argent et l'or qui sont sur elles, de peur que ces choses ne te deviennent un piège; car elles sont en abomination à l'Eternel, ton Dieu.

KJV

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    re made, or anything they found in the houses of idols, as expressed in the commandment of the Law ( Dt. 7:25, seqq.). It also seems an absurd commandment set forth in Dt. 23:13 , that they should "dig round about and . . . cover with earth that which they were eased of." Objecti…

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