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Hosea 6:7
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
Hosea 6:7 · Bible in Basic English
Hosea 6:7 in other translations
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there.
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In context
4 O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;
6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.
9 And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.
10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;
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