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I sprang to my feet, leaving the dinner untouched, carried the dead man from the square, and put him in one of the rooms until sundown, so that I might bury him. I returned and washed[a] and in sorrow ate my food.(A) I remembered the oracle pronounced by the prophet Amos against Bethel:(B)

“I will turn your feasts into mourning,
    and all your songs into dirges.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2:5 Washed: because of ritual defilement from touching a corpse (Nm 19:11–13).