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aHow can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make you like bAdmah? How can I treat you like bZeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled.
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Genesis 14:8, Deuteronomy 29:23
Genesis 14
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And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) came out; and they arrayed for battle against them in athe valley of Siddim,
Deuteronomy 29
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'All its land is abrimstone and salt, ba burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of cSodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.'
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