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And I thought, “After she has done all this she will return to me,” but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.(A) She[a] saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.(B) Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.(C)

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  1. 3.8 Gk mss Syr: Heb I

I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister(A) Judah saw it.(B) I gave faithless Israel(C) her certificate of divorce(D) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;(E) she also went out and committed adultery. Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land(F) and committed adultery(G) with stone(H) and wood.(I)

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