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We have done wicked things against you. We have not obeyed the commands, the laws and the rules that you gave to your servant Moses.[a]

Remember what you told your servant, Moses. You told him, “If the Israelites turn away from me, I will make them live among foreign people in many different places. But if they return to me and they obey my commands, I will be kind to them. I will bring them back together again from all the different places where they are living. Even if they live far away, I will find them. I will bring them to the place that I have chosen to give honour to my name.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1:7 See Exodus 20.

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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