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Anonymous prosperous adult’s hands rest protectively on full unmarked silver pouch while uneven scales shadowed behind, no Ephraim portrait, quoted speech or modern coins.
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Hosea 12:9

Wealth Claims Innocence

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Story guide: Ephraim’s boast treats wealth as evidence against wrongdoing.

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9And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich; I have found wealth for myself. In all my labor they will not find in me iniquity that is sin.”

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