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See! the princes of Israel within you use their power to shed blood.[a] Within you, father and mother are dishonored; they extort the resident alien in your midst; within you, they oppress orphans and widows.(A) What I consider holy you have rejected, and my sabbaths you have desecrated.

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  1. 22:6 To shed blood: a very serious charge in light of the solemn command of God to Noah in Gn 9:6 against human bloodshed.