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    You’ll be forced to leave through breached walls,
        each one of you taken straight out and cast into Harmon, a place of exile.
    I dare you: Come to My shrine at Bethel and do wrong;
        come, worship Me at Gilgal, and watch your sins multiply.
    Go ahead, bring your ritual sacrifices there every morning
        and ten percent of your earnings every three days.
    Burn a thanksgiving offering of leavened bread,
        boast about your freewill offerings, and let everyone know
        because these things are what you love to do, people of Israel.

So says the Eternal Lord.

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You will each go straight out
    through breaches in the wall,(A)
    and you will be cast out toward Harmon,[a]
declares the Lord.
“Go to Bethel(B) and sin;
    go to Gilgal(C) and sin yet more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,(D)
    your tithes(E) every three years.[b](F)
Burn leavened bread(G) as a thank offering
    and brag about your freewill offerings(H)
boast about them, you Israelites,
    for this is what you love to do,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:3 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression
  2. Amos 4:4 Or days