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No one should argue or blame another person. Priests, my argument is with you![a] You priests will fall in the daytime. And at night the prophet will also fall with you. I will also destroy your mother.

“My people are destroyed because they have no knowledge. You priests have refused to learn, so I will refuse to let you be priests for me. You have forgotten the law of your God, so I will forget your children.

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  1. Hosea 4:4 Or “The people cannot complain or blame someone else. The people are helpless, like arguing with a priest.” Many times the priests and Levites served as judges, and their decisions were final.

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