10537. 'And Jehovah said to Moses' means instruction. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying', when Jehovah is the speaker, as instruction, dealt with in the places referred to in 10280, at this point instruction showing that Divine Truth did not reside with the actual nation, which is meant by the command to them to take off their finery, dealt with below.
Hosea 2:2-4
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Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
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Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
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Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
