Wisdom 14:23DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 23 of 31
"For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,"
In context
21And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood.
22And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.
23For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,
24So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery:
25And all things are mingled together, blood, murder, theft and dissimulation, corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury, disquieting of the good,