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10 Even though they sold themselves among the nations,
    I will gather them now.
    They will suffer for a while under the burdens of kings and princes.

11 “The more altars that the people of Ephraim build
    to make offerings to pay for their sins,
        the more places they have for sinning.
12 I have written many things for them in my teachings,
    but they consider these things strange and foreign.

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10 Although they have sold themselves among the nations,
    I will now gather them together.(A)
They will begin to waste away(B)
    under the oppression of the mighty king.

11 “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings,
    these have become altars for sinning.(C)
12 I wrote for them the many things of my law,
    but they regarded them as something foreign.(D)

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