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TIL the saying "Kill them all; let God sort them out." originates from the instructions given by a Papal representative to the crusaders just before the The Massacre at Béziers where all 20,000 citizens were killed. The original Latin instructions: Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

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