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Hosea 6:6-8
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6 For it is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice,
    and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.(A)

Further Crimes of Israel

7 But they, at Adam,[a] violated the covenant;
    there they betrayed me.

8 Gilead[b] is a city of evildoers,
    tracked with blood.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:7 At Adam: the violation of the covenant at Adam is mentioned nowhere else in the Bible. The place Adam, the location of which is unknown, may be referred to in Jos 3:16.
  2. 6:8 Gilead: city in Transjordan (Gn 31:46–48; 2 Kgs 15:25).
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