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Gilead is a city of people who do evil;
    their footprints are bloody.
The priests are like robbers waiting to attack people;
    they murder people on the road to Shechem[a]
    and do wicked things.
10 I have seen horrible things in Israel.
Look at Israel’s prostitution;
    Israel has become unclean.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:9 Shechem A city of safety where people could go for protection.

Gilead is a city of evildoers,(A)
    stained with footprints of blood.
As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,(B)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder(C) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.(D)
10 I have seen a horrible(E) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.(F)

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