{"id":55389,"date":"2023-03-07T01:55:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T06:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=55389"},"modified":"2022-12-17T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:17:38","slug":"the-samaritans-part-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2023\/03\/07\/the-samaritans-part-six\/","title":{"rendered":"The Samaritans&#8211; Part Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>What especially makes Samaritans stand apart is that they still practice animal sacrifice on Mt. Gerizim for Passover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/thumbnail_20221109_105818-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-55398\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/thumbnail_20221109_105818-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/thumbnail_20221109_105811-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-55401\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/thumbnail_20221109_105811-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This means that they still have priests, unlike Jews who may be named Cohen or Levi, but are not actual priests literally speaking.<\/p>\n<p><a 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