India, April 16 -- US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday sparked a row after saying a prayer on the recent rescue of American airmen that misquoted the Ezekiel 25:17 verse from the Bible.

Hegseth said that the verse was rescued by the "Sandy One" Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) mission as they rescued the airmen and named it CSAR 25:17- a reference to the two combinations: the Ezekiel 27-17 verse and the acronym of the unit.

However, the prayer was not original: it is from the morphed version of the Ezekiel 25:17 that Samuel L. Jackson says in the opening scene of Pulp Fiction (1994)- Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning film.

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