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Hosea 12:10-12
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10 I gave my messages to the prophets.
I showed them many visions.[a]
I used stories for the prophets to teach the people about me.
11 The people in Gilead do wicked things.[b]
They will become as useless as their idols.
At Gilgal, the people offer bulls as sacrifices on their altars.
Those altars will be like heaps of stones in a farmer's field.’

12 Jacob ran away to the land of Aram.[c]
He worked there as a shepherd so that he could get a wife.

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  1. 12:10 A vision is like a dream but you might not be asleep.
  2. 12:11 Hosea is perhaps thinking about murders in Gilead. See Hosea 6:8. They also worshipped idols.
  3. 12:12 Jacob ran away from his brother Esau. He had cheated Esau and Esau was very angry with him.
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Hosea 12:10-12
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10 I spoke to the prophets,
    gave them many visions
    and told parables(A) through them.”(B)

11 Is Gilead wicked?(C)
    Its people are worthless!
Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?(D)
    Their altars will be like piles of stones
    on a plowed field.(E)
12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram[a];(F)
    Israel served to get a wife,
    and to pay for her he tended sheep.(G)

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  1. Hosea 12:12 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia
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