Hosea 12:11-13
Expanded Bible
11 ·The people of Gilead are evil [or Is Gilead wicked? or In Gilead there was idolatry],
they ·are worth nothing [are worthless; or will come to nothing].
·People [or Do they…?] sacrifice bulls at Gilgal [4:15].
But their altars will become like piles of stone
in a plowed field.
12 ·Your ancestor Jacob [L Jacob] fled to ·northwest Mesopotamia [L Aram; Gen. 28:5]
where he ·worked [served; C his uncle Laban] to get a wife [C Rachel (and Leah); Gen. 29:20, 28];
he tended sheep to pay for her.
13 Later the Lord used a prophet [C Moses; Deut. 18:15]
to bring ·Jacob’s descendants [L Israel] out of Egypt;
he used a prophet
to ·take care of [tend; preserve; guard] the Israelites.
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