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Fat burnt-offerings of sheep shall be thine, and the smoke of ram’s flesh; bullocks and goats shall be thy sacrifice. (Psalms 65, 15)
What though flesh of mine, heart of mine, should waste away? Still God will be my heart’s stronghold, eternally my inheritance. (Psalms 72, 26)
He would not forget that they were flesh and blood, no better than a breath of wind, that passes by and never returns. (Psalms 77, 39)
altar and shrine and idol must be set up, swine’s flesh offered, and all manner of unhallowed meat; (1 Maccabees 1, 50)
As for Jason, he fell upon his own fellow-countrymen, and that without mercy. His own flesh and blood to vanquish, what was this but shameful defeat? Ay, but to him friend was foe, were there spoil for the winning! (2 Maccabees 5, 6)
Here was Eleazar, one of the chief scribes, a man of great age and of noble features, being required to eat swine’s flesh; but though they held his mouth open they could not force him to eat. (2 Maccabees 6, 18)
Seven brothers there were, that lay under arrest, and their mother with them; these too were tortured at the king’s command, to see if whip and thong would not make them eat swine’s flesh, for all their scruples. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
Bred worms at last in that sinful body, and he lived yet, though miserably enough, to see his own flesh rot away, till his own men could not bear the foul stench of him; (2 Maccabees 9, 9)
A kindly man is the friend of his own well-being; cruelty will not spare its own flesh and blood. (Proverbs 11, 17)
What of myself? Was not Solomon a mortal man like the rest of you, come down from that first man that was a thing of clay?✻ I, too, was flesh and blood; ten months I lay a-fashioning in my mother’s womb; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 1)
Murderers that would not spare their own children, that feasted on human flesh, human entrails and blood, they must have no share in thy covenant. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 5)
then fire, in its turn, could not waste the frail flesh of living creatures that traversed it, nor melt that heavenly food that melted easily as ice. No means wouldst thou neglect, Lord, to magnify thy people and win them renown; never wouldst thou leave them unregarded, but always and everywhere camest to their side.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 20)
