The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute[a] them in broad daylight before the Lord so that his burning anger may turn away from Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. 25:4 Or impale, or hang, or expose; Hb obscure

14 And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your ancestors’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel.

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Because of this, put on sackcloth;
mourn and wail,(A)
for the Lord’s burning anger(B)
has not turned away from us.

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13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.(A)
They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.(B)
Be put to shame by your harvests
because of the Lord’s burning anger.(C)

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37 Peaceful grazing land will become lifeless
because of the Lord’s burning anger.(A)

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24 The Lord’s burning anger will not turn back
until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart.
In time to come you will understand it.(A)

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45 Come out from among her, my people!(A)
Save your lives, each of you,(B)
from the Lord’s burning anger.

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