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• first explanation is doubtful, the second is an outright lie. the Talmud <ref>shabbos 56b</ref>) [quote] "anyone who says david has sinned is a making a mistake"[end quote]. if david would have
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• , the most important were animal sacrifices.<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica | second edition | vol 17< | sacrifice | pg 641</ref> Blood sacrifices were divided into [[burnt offering]]s (Hebrew: עלה
• or more generically as "worship").<ref>"act of worship or devotion, offering, oblation, sacrifice (the former meanings prevailing in Veda, the latter in post-Vedic literature", Monier-Williams.</ref>

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Re: Rape in the Hebrew Bible

I actually wrote the revision you reverted. I removed it because of another editor's concern that it was non-neutral, and it actually was a vestige of a previous version of the article. Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 22:57, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

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