12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
Hosea 8:12
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2 Esdras 3:19–21
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Ezekiel 20:24–26
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2 Esdras 9:10–12
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8 But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by… 10 …
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