¹¹ ·The people of Gilead are evil [or Is Gilead wicked? or In Gilead there was idolatry],
    they ·are worth nothing [are worthless; or will come to nothing].
·People [or Do they…?] sacrifice bulls at Gilgal [4:15].
    But their altars will become like piles of stone
    in a plowed field.
¹² ·Your ancestor Jacob [^LJacob] fled to ·northwest Mesopotamia [^LAram; Gen. 28:5]
    where he ·worked [served; ^Chis uncle Laban] to get a wife [^CRachel (and Leah); Gen. 29:20, 28];
    he tended sheep to pay for her.
¹³ Later the Lord used a prophet [^CMoses; Deut. 18:15]
    to bring ·Jacob’s descendants [^LIsrael] out of Egypt;
he used a prophet
    to ·take care of [tend; preserve; guard] the Israelites.