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They confiscate the fields they desire
and seize the houses they want.[a]
They defraud people of their homes[b]
and deprive people of the land they have inherited.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:2 tn Heb “they desire fields and rob [them], and houses and take [them] away.”
  2. Micah 2:2 tn Heb “and they oppress a man and his home.”
  3. Micah 2:2 tn Heb “and a man and his inheritance.” The verb עָשַׁק (ʿashaq, “to oppress”; “to wrong”) does double duty in the parallel structure and is understood by ellipsis in the second line.

They covet fields(A) and seize them,(B)
    and houses, and take them.
They defraud(C) people of their homes,
    they rob them of their inheritance.(D)

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