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Gilead is a city of wrong-doers, with blood in every footstep. Like robbers lie in wait for a man, a group of religious leaders kill on the way to Shechem. For sure they have done a sinful thing. 10 I have seen a very bad thing among the people of Israel. Ephraim has left Me to worship false gods. Israel has made itself unclean.

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Gilead is a city of evildoers,(A)
    stained with footprints of blood.
As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,(B)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder(C) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.(D)
10 I have seen a horrible(E) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.(F)

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