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44 For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!
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44 And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah.
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45 But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
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45 But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.
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46 For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
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46 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring a mob against them and give them over to terror and plunder.
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47 And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
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47 The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
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48 Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
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48 "So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.
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49 And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."
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49 You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD."
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