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Osee 1:2-5 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

2. The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Osse: and the Lord said to Osee: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.

3. So he went, and took Gomer the daughter of Debelaim: and she conceived and bore him a son.

4. And the Lord said to him: Call his name Jezrahel: for yet a little while, and I will visit the blood of Jezrahel upon the house of Jehu, and I will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

5. And in that day I will break in pieces the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrahel.

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