It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

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So for this reason, All alien practices are to be removed from the covenant community.

由于这个原因，所有异族习俗都被从这个契约团体中移除。

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