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10 I spoke to the prophets,
    giving revelation after revelation,
        and employing parables in the prophetic writings.[a]

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;[b]
    Israel served there to obtain his wife,
        tending sheep to gain[c] his wife.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 12:10 Lit. parables by the hand of the prophets
  2. Hosea 12:12 I.e. Syria
  3. Hosea 12:12 The Heb. lacks to gain