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Gen_44:7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
Ver. 7. God forbid that thy servants should do.] Rapine and robbery was ever condemned amongst very heathens, and severely punished. Tamerlane, in his expedition against Bajazet, took such order with his soldiers that none were injured; insomuch, that if a soldier had but taken an apple, or other thing of like value from any man, he died for it. One of his soldiers having taken a little milk from a country woman, and she thereof complaining, he ripped up his stomach; where when he found the milk, he contented the woman and sent her away, who had otherwise died for her false accusation. {a}
{a} Turk. Hist., fol. 213.