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Hosea 11:3
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by their arms, but they didn’t know that I healed them.
Hosea 11:3 · World English Bible
Hosea 11:3 in other translations
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they did not know that I healed them.
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In context
1 “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
2 They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by their arms, but they didn’t know that I healed them.
4 I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
5 “They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.
6 The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.
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