Further Indictment of Jacob’s Heirs

12 Jacob fled to the territory of Aram.(A)
Israel worked to earn a wife;(B)
he tended flocks for a wife.(C)
13 The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet,(D)
and Israel was tended by a prophet.

14 Ephraim has provoked bitter anger,(E)
so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him(F)
and repay him for his contempt.(G)

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12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram,
    and there he[a] earned a wife by tending sheep.
13 Then by a prophet
    the Lord brought Jacob’s descendants[b] out of Egypt;
and by that prophet
    they were protected.
14 But the people of Israel
    have bitterly provoked the Lord,
so their Lord will now sentence them to death
    in payment for their sins.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:12 Hebrew Israel. See note on 10:11b.
  2. 12:13 Hebrew brought Israel. See note on 10:11b.