Wisdom 12:6
Good News Translation
in which parents murdered their own defenseless children. It was your will for our ancestors to destroy these people,

New Revised Standard Version
these parents who murder helpless lives, you willed to destroy by the hands of our ancestors,

Contemporary English Version
and murdered their own helpless children. That's why you decided to let our ancestors destroy them,

New American Bible
and parents who took with their own hands defenseless lives, You willed to destroy by the hands of our ancestors,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents,

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And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents,

Wisdom 12:4
Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and wicked sacrifices,

Wisdom 12:5
And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy consecration,

Wisdom 12:7
That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God.

Wisdom 12:8
Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.

Context
Wisdom 12
5And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy consecration, 6And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents, 7That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God.…
Cross References
Wisdom 12:4
Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and wicked sacrifices,

Wisdom 12:5
And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy consecration,

Wisdom 12:7
That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God.

Wisdom 12:8
Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 12:5
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