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My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

13

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

14

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

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Hosea 4:12

4:12 their stocks, and their staff. The stocks were idols made of wood (compare Jeremiah 2:27). The “staff” may be a divining rod, such as many have used since ancient times to “witch” for water or metals in the earth. Perhaps more likely, it is synonymous with “stock.”

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