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XII] :He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand:
 * He loveth to oppress.
 * And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance:
 * In all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
 * And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt
 * Will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
 * I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions,
 * And used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
 * Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity:
 * They sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal;
 * Yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
 * And Jacob fled into the country of Syria,
 * And Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
 * And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt,
 * And by a prophet was he preserved.
 * Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly:
 * Therefore shall he leave his blood upon him,
 * And his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.