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Your city will be destroyed. The women will rush out through cracks in the wall and throw themselves onto the pile of dead bodies.[a]

This is what the Lord says: “Go to Bethel and sin. Go to Gilgal[b] and sin even more. Offer your sacrifices in the morning. Bring a tenth of your crops for the three-day festival. And offer a thank offering made with yeast. Tell everyone about the freewill offerings.[c] Israel, you love to do those things. So go and do them.” This is what the Lord God said.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:3 throw … dead bodies Or “You will be thrown away. People will take you to Mount Hermon.” The Hebrew text here is hard to understand. It is not clear if the women will be “thrown away” or if the women will be “throwing something away.”
  2. Amos 4:4 Bethel … Gilgal Places of worship for the people of Israel. God wanted the people of Israel and the people of Judah to worship him only in the Temple at Jerusalem.
  3. Amos 4:5 Offer your sacrifices … freewill offerings All these things were against the Law of Moses. The leaders and false priests started these new festivals and different ways of worshiping God.

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