OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 8:12

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I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

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Verse 12. Foreign. Shall I give them laws again to despise? Septuagint “I shall write down their number.” It will be an easy task, they shall be so diminished. “His laws,” and so forth ( Calmet.) or, “I will describe to him a multitude, and his regulations: The beloved altars have been deemed foreign. S. Jerom’s and Grabe’s edit. Bible.

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