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Jeremiah 7:5-6

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7:5 You must change 1  the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly. 2  7:6 Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. 3  Stop killing innocent people 4  in this land. Stop paying allegiance to 5  other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. 6 
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[7:5]  1 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[7:5]  2 tn Heb “you must do justice between a person and his fellow/neighbor.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[7:6]  3 tn Heb “Stop oppressing foreigner, orphan, and widow.”

[7:6]  4 tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”

[7:6]  5 tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.

[7:6]  6 tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”



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