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Amos 2:1
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Amos 2:1
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 2
Moab
1 Thus says the Lord:
For three crimes of Moab, and now four—
I will not take it back—
Because he burned to ashes[a]
the bones of Edom’s king,
Footnotes
- 2:1 He burned to ashes: to the peoples of the Near East, burning the bones of the dead was a particularly heinous crime, as it was believed to cause the spirits of these dead to wander without any hope of interment in their graves, where they could rest in peace.
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
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