11. Is there idolatry in Gilead?Certainly its inhabitants will come to nothing!Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field!
12. Jacob fled to the country of Aram,then Israel worked to acquire a wife;he tended sheep to pay for her.
13. The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet,and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.
14. But Ephraim bitterly provoked him to anger;so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed,his Lord will repay him for the contempt he has shown.