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10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and [a]consecrated themselves unto the [b]shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:10 Or, separated
  2. Hosea 9:10 Hebrew shame.

10 “When I found Israel,
    it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
    it was like seeing the early fruit(A) on the fig(B) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(C)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(D)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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