Graphic Bible · Scene 4 of 16

Object-only close period earthen bread oven with coals glowing under kneaded dough on adjacent board, inside a plain empty domestic bakery; background bare earthen wall. No people, idols, shrine, worship, temples or sexual scene.
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Hosea 7:4

An Oven Heated

An Oven, a Dove, and a Deceitful Bow · Hosea 7

Story guide: The heated oven gives the charge of unfaithfulness a burning image.

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4All of them are adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker, who stops stirring from the kneading of the dough until its leavening.

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