Actual biblical passage used by pro-TNC mining advocates
to justify their operations
to justify their operations
"For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land - a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs..., a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper..., and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you."
-Deuteronomy 8: 7-10
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Actual biblical passage used by anti-TNC mining advocates
to assert their advocacy
to assert their advocacy
"Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell.”
-Numbers 35:34