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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.
14 But ·the Israelites [L Ephraim; 4:17] ·made the Lord angry [bitterly provoked the Lord];
    So the Lord ·will make them pay for the blood they have shed [L leave on him the guilt of his bloodshed]
    and for the ·disgraceful things they have done [or contempt they have shown].

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