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Like Adam, my people did not obey the covenant that I had made with them.[a]
They did not serve me faithfully.
All the people of Gilead do evil things.
The blood from their murders lies on the streets.
The priests join together like robbers.
They hide themselves and they are ready to attack.
They wait on the road to Shechem,
ready to murder people who pass that way.[b]
They have done wicked things.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:7 ‘Like Adam’ may mean the man that God created in the beginning. Or it may mean ‘at Adam’, the place where the Israelites went into Canaan.
  2. 6:9 Shechem was an important city.