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Joel 3:3
New English Translation

3 and they cast lots for my people.
They traded[a] a boy for a prostitute;
they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:3 tn Heb “gave.”
  2. Joel 3:3 sn Heb “and they drank.” Joel vividly refers to a situation where innocent human life has little value; its only worth is its use in somehow satisfying selfish appetites of wicked people who have control over others (cf. Amos 2:6 and 8:6).
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