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A CHRISTIAN ROMANCE. 513<br />

"perish utterly. If it be cattle, they also must be<br />

"carefully watched that they be not destroyed by<br />

"the thief and the plunderer, or be carried away<br />

"from place to place in a foreign land. If ye have<br />

"gold and silver ye will have sorrow In carrying<br />

"them about in chests and boxes, and ye must<br />

"dig holes in the ground to place them therein to<br />

"save them from the destroyer, and from the Advice to<br />

"plunderer, and from the enemy, and from thegrveTnorr<br />

"ravisher. What can I say to shew you that<br />

"everything is in vain unless ye do that which is<br />

.-^ "good upon earth The<br />

governor who perverteth<br />

"judgment is evil in the sight of God. The ofo-<br />

"vernor who receiveth gifts and striveth to please<br />

"in the sight of men only is hateful in the sight<br />

"of God. The governor who is a fornicator and<br />

"who defileth the wives of other men, and who<br />

"neglecteth the cry of the poor and needy and<br />

"delivereth them not out of the hand of the op-<br />

"pressor and ravisher is evil in the sight of God.<br />

"The governor who maketh an image or an idol,<br />

"and who with fraud turneth aside to himself the<br />

"possessions of others is evil before God. The<br />

"governor who enquireth by magic, and is a sooth-<br />

"sayer and is one who useth enchantments, and is<br />

"a diviner by means of birds and stars, is hateful<br />

"unto God. The governor who is rapacious, and<br />

"whose house and fields [belong] to the children<br />

"of the dead, and who is arrogant, and is a drunkard,<br />

"and is a persecutor of the poor, and is one who<br />

"will not receive the widow, is hateful unto God.<br />

TTT

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