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[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

The world's first recorded use of doublethink?

[โ€“] mrdown@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

The more explicit verse

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys - 1 Samuel 15:3