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Hosea 7:6

Hosea 7:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

This verse, Wunsche thinks, is probably the most difficult in the whole book.

1. The translation of the first clause in the Authorized Version is susceptible of a more literal and improved rendering.

2. In the second clause which Keil translates in the same sense as

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