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Gilead[a] is a city of evildoers,
    stained with bloody footprints.
Like robbers waiting in ambush,
    priests are banded together.
They commit murder on the road to Shechem,
    perpetrating monstrous crimes.
10 I have witnessed a horrible thing
    in the house of Israel.
There Ephraim engages in prostitution
    and Israel is defiled.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:8 Gilead: across the Jordan.