<t /><p class="poetry">Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings,p> <p class="poetry">these have become altars for sinning!p>

<p class="poetry">I<n id="1" /> have not even permitted my mouth<n id="2" /> to sinp> <p class="poetry">by asking<n id="3" /> for his life through a curse &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">Yet they continued to sin against him,p> <p class="poetry">and rebelled against the sovereign One<n id="1" /> in the desert.p>

Then he<n id="1" /> is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop<n id="2" /> to decontaminate<n id="3" /> the house,

When Pharaoh saw<n id="1" /> that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again:<n id="2" /> both he and his servants hardened<n id="3" /> their hearts.

or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely<n id="1" /> concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin<n id="2" /> &#8211;

<p class="poetry">Even now they persist in sin!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They make metal images for themselves,p> <p class="poetry">idols that they skillfully fashion<n id="2" /> from their own silver;p> <p class="poetry">all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen!p> <p class="poetry">There is a saying about them:<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Those who sacrifice<n id="4" /> to the calf idol are calf kissers!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>