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"In those days people will no longer say, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Instead, everyone will die for his own sin; whoever eats sour grapes-his own teeth will be set on edge.

"The time is coming," declares the LORD , "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to ^(F65) them, " declares the LORD .

"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD . "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD ,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD . "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."