"Pagan superstition and sacrifices are completely forbidden, in accord with the law set forth by Constantine."

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“If any Jew should suppose that he should purchase the slave of another sec or people, such slave shall be immediately vindicated to the fisc. If the Jew should purchase a slave and circumcise him, he shall be penalized not only with the loss of the slave, but he shall also be visited with capital punishment.”

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