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Jeremiah 16:18

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first: Jeremiah 17:18; Isaiah 40:2, Isaiah 61:7; Revelation 18:6

they have defiled: Jeremiah 2:7, Jeremiah 3:1-2, Jeremiah 3:9; Leviticus 18:27-28; Numbers 35:33-34; Psalms 106:38; Isaiah 24:5; Micah 2:10; Zephaniah 3:1-5

the carcases: Leviticus 26:30; Ezekiel 11:18, Ezekiel 11:21, Ezekiel 43:7-9

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