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Old 06-16-2017, 10:10 PM
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Re: "We Couldn't Play Marbles..."

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I read somewhere that in ancient times this was a common practice of humiliation. I also read that the KJV sanitized what was really occurring-- the full emasculation of their defeated foes, not just the foreskins.

Talk about humiliation and death!
The KJV sanitizes a lot of things.

Some of the original Hebrew language was not always political correct, but the translators felt the actual words might be offensive to many people so they substituted with euphemisms.
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