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10 Men sleep with their fathers’ wives and force themselves on women who are menstruating. 11 Within your walls live men who commit adultery with their neighbors’ wives, who defile their daughters-in-law, or who rape their own sisters. 12 There are hired murderers, loan racketeers, and extortioners everywhere. They never even think of me and my commands, says the Sovereign Lord.

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10 In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed;(A) in you are those who violate women during their period,(B) when they are ceremonially unclean.(C) 11 In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife,(D) another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,(E) and another violates his sister,(F) his own father’s daughter.(G) 12 In you are people who accept bribes(H) to shed blood; you take interest(I) and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors.(J) And you have forgotten(K) me, declares the Sovereign Lord.(L)

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