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And it shall come to pass, if there remaintenmen in onehouse, that they shall die.
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And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
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For, behold, the LORDcommandeth, and he will smite the greathouse with breaches,[a] and the littlehouse with clefts.
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Shall horsesrun upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turnedjudgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
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Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
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But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel,saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river[b] of the wilderness.