Wisdom 12:3 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,

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You hated the people who once lived in your holy land because of the evil deeds they were doing.

For those ancient inhabitants of your holy land, who you abhorred,

For those ancient inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou didst abhor,

You hated the people who lived in your holy land long ago, because they did horrible things: they practiced magic and conducted unholy worship;

For truly the old inhabitants of your holy land,

And what about those who lived in your holy land before your people settled there?