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# General Information:
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Yahweh is talking about Judah and Israel.
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# may Judah not become guilty
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God knows how sinful Israel has become and does not want Judah to do the same thing.
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# Do not go to Gilgal, you people; do not go up to Beth Aven
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The people of Judah are being warned not to go to the cities of Gilgal or Beth Aven to worship idols in those places. Gilgal was once a place where Yahweh had been worshiped, but it had become a place of idol worship.
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# Beth Aven
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This was a city on the border between the northern kingdom of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin in the southern kingdom. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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