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But like Adam, they transgressed the covenant;
    there they dealt faithlessly with me.
Gilead is a city of evil,
    a cunning city because of blood.[a]
Like bandits lying in wait,
    so is a band of priests;
they murder on the road to Shechem;
    indeed, they commit a monstrous crime.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:8 The Hebrew is difficult; NRSV translates “tracked with blood”