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11 But the people of Gilead are worthless
    because of their idol worship.
And in Gilgal, too, they sacrifice bulls;
    their altars are lined up like the heaps of stone
    along the edges of a plowed field.
12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram,
    and there he[a] earned a wife by tending sheep.
13 Then by a prophet
    the Lord brought Jacob’s descendants[b] out of Egypt;
and by that prophet
    they were protected.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:12 Hebrew Israel. See note on 10:11b.
  2. 12:13 Hebrew brought Israel. See note on 10:11b.

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