if you do not oppress the alien, the [a](A)orphan, or the widow, and do not shed (B)innocent blood in this place, nor (C)walk after other gods to your own ruin,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:6 Or fatherless

Because they have (A)forsaken Me and have (B)made this an alien place and have burned [a]sacrifices in it to (C)other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the (D)blood of the innocent

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 19:4 Or incense

17 “But your eyes and your heart
Are intent only upon your own (A)dishonest gain,
And on (B)shedding innocent blood
And on practicing oppression and extortion.”

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