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26 You depend on your swords, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?(A)

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The officials within it
    are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
    that leave nothing until the morning.(A)

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Social Evils Denounced

Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and evil deeds[a] on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in their power.(A)
They covet fields and seize them,
    houses and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
    people and their inheritance.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.1 Cn: Heb work evil

40 By your sword you shall live,
    and you shall serve your brother,
but when you break loose,[a]
    you shall break his yoke from your neck.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 27.40 Meaning of Heb uncertain

27 But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)

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But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 21.8 Or the unbelieving
  2. 21.8 Or prostitutes

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A)

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In you are those who slander to shed blood, those in you who eat upon the mountains, who commit lewdness in your midst.(A) 10 In you they uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women during their menstrual periods.(B) 11 One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father’s daughter.(C)

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15 who does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

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11 who does any of these things (though his father[a] does none of them), who eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife, 12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,(A)

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  1. 18.11 Heb he

if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,(A)

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They were well-fed lusty stallions,
    each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.(A)
Shall I not punish them for these things?
            says the Lord,
    and shall I not bring retribution
    on a nation such as this?(B)

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20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
    those who contrive mischief by statute?(A)
21 They band together against the life of the righteous
    and condemn the innocent to death.(B)

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