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11 “There’s iniquity in Gilead, isn’t there?
    They have become truly vain.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
    their altars are like piles of stone in furrowed fields.
12 Jacob fled into the land of Aram;[a]
    Israel served there to obtain his wife,
        tending sheep to gain[b] his wife.

13 “By a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt,
    and by a prophet he[c] was rescued.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 12:12 I.e. Syria
  2. Hosea 12:12 The Heb. lacks to gain
  3. Hosea 12:13 I.e. Israel