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13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops
and on the high places they burn incense
    under oak poplar, and terebinth—
    for its shade is good.
Therefore your daughters are prostitutes
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
14 Will I not punish your daughters for prostitution
    or your daughters-in-law for adultery?
For they consort with prostitutes,
    and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes.
A people without understanding
    will be thrust down.

15 Though you, Israel, are a prostitute,
let Judah not become guilty.
But do not come to Gilgal
    or go up to Beth-aven,[a]
and do not swear: ‘As Adonai lives!’

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:15 Meaning, House of Iniquity.

13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops
    and burn offerings on the hills,
under oak,(A) poplar and terebinth,
    where the shade is pleasant.(B)
Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution(C)
    and your daughters-in-law to adultery.(D)

14 “I will not punish your daughters
    when they turn to prostitution,
nor your daughters-in-law
    when they commit adultery,
because the men themselves consort with harlots(E)
    and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes(F)
    a people without understanding(G) will come to ruin!(H)

15 “Though you, Israel, commit adultery,
    do not let Judah become guilty.

“Do not go to Gilgal;(I)
    do not go up to Beth Aven.[a](J)
    And do not swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:15 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a derogatory name for Bethel, which means house of God).