And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.”
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.
How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them. Then the people of Israel sent to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel. And they came to the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them, “Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, ‘What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the Lord by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the Lord?
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