17 Is the iniquity (A)of Peor not enough for us, from which we are not cleansed till this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,

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17 Was not the sin of Peor(A) enough for us? Up to this very day we have not cleansed ourselves from that sin, even though a plague fell on the community of the Lord!

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10 “I found Israel
Like grapes in the (A)wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the (B)firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to (C)Baal Peor,
And [a]separated themselves to that shame;
(D)They became an abomination like the thing they loved.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:10 Or dedicated

10 “When I found Israel,
    it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
    it was like seeing the early fruit(A) on the fig(B) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(C)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(D)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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