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"The fatal decision of the seventy to translate herem, "extermination" as anathema, 'votive offering, has concussed through the centuries unto today. When anathema then took on the meaning of "curse" and for Catholics, "excommunication," the misunderstandings could only multiply.
Herem is an injunction to do something thoroughly and completely, to kill to exterminate whatever has been set aside for herem.
Jeremiah foresaw that "on that day," the graves will open and the bones of the kings, the priests and the false prophets, indeed all the dwellers in Jerusalem, will be laid bare: "before the Sun and the Moon,/and all the army of the Heavens,/ that they loved, that they served,/and behind which they marched./that they consulted and before which they bowed down." "