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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

(3) The third part of the message to Israel, containing the specific illustrations of Israel’s crimes, starts with the familiar because they (RSV), with the crimes introduced in the usual way in the Hebrew grammar (2:6b), but there the similarity ends. Interwoven are social crimes and the fact that these are also crimes against God. The way in which these are organized may be seen in the Appendix, Section 3.1. That the crimes against people are also crimes against God must be clear in the translation.
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