OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 4:8

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They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

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Verse 8. Sins: victims. Worthington.—Iniquity; or “they seek for support in their propitiatory offerings,” and lull the people asleep in their sins. The priests of the golden calf imitated the sacred rites of Moses. It would have been too difficult to make the people change altogether.

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