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But they like men have transgressed the covenant:
there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity,
and is polluted with blood.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man,
so the company of priests murder in the way by consent:
for they commit lewdness.

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As at Adam,[a] they have broken the covenant;(A)
    they were unfaithful(B) to me there.
Gilead is a city of evildoers,(C)
    stained with footprints of blood.
As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,(D)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder(E) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:7 Or Like Adam; or Like human beings