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Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.

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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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