A moment in scripture
Hosea 11:3
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I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
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The surrounding passage
- Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
- Hosea 11:2
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
- Hosea 11:4
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
- Hosea 11:5
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.