¹⁶ And when you choose some of their daughters as wives^(A) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,^(B) they will lead your sons to do the same.

⁷ I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister^(A) Judah saw it.^{(B) 8} I gave faithless Israel^(C) her certificate of divorce^(D) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;^(E) she also went out and committed adultery. ⁹ Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land^(F) and committed adultery^(G) with stone^(H) and wood.^(I)