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AASS's avatar

I like how you highlight the importance of education in places like Salem and Scottland. (Don't get me wrong, I love Halloween fun.) It’s so easy to turn the page of a history book when something unpleasant happens. But we need to know the full story and how it relates to today.

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'The notorious command “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” was absent in the Bible until James prepared his translation.'

In fact you can find the identical line in William Tyndale's 1526 translation: "Thou shalt not suffre a witch to lyue" (Exodus 22:18)

https://biblehub.com/tyndale/exodus/22.htm

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