We have acted corruptly toward you and have not kept the commands, statutes, and ordinances you gave your servant Moses.(A) Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.(B) But if you return to me and carefully observe my commands, even though your exiles were banished to the farthest horizon,[a] I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have my name dwell.”(C)

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  1. 1:9 Lit skies

We have acted very wickedly(A) toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.

“Remember(B) the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter(C) you among the nations, but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather(D) them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’(E)

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