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Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands.[a] Stop killing innocent people[b] in this land. Stop paying allegiance to[c] other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.[d]

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  1. Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “Stop oppressing resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.”sn Cf. Exod 22:21; Lev 19:33-34; Deut 10:18-19; 24:14, 17; 27:19.
  2. Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”
  3. Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.
  4. Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”