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"Therefore thus says the Lord , ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming ^[f]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am ^(ab)proclaiming a ^[g]release to you,' declares the Lord , ‘to the ^(ac)sword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a ^(ad)terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

I will give the men who have ^(ae)transgressed My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they ^(af)cut the calf in two and passed between its parts—

the ^(ag)officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the court officers and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf—

I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who ^(ah)seek their life. And their ^(ai)dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.