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10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
    and led you for forty years in the wilderness,
    to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 And I raised up some of your children to be prophets
    and some of your youths to be nazirites.[a]
    Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?
says the Lord.

12 But you made the nazirites[b] drink wine,
    and commanded the prophets,
    saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 2:11 That is, those separated or those consecrated
  2. Amos 2:12 That is, those separated or those consecrated

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