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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
EZEKIEL
CHAPTER 22
  12 In thee have they taken agifts to shed blood; thou hast taken busury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

Footnotes
12a
Deut. 27: 25.
  25 Cursed be he that taketh areward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Isa. 1: 23.
  23 Thy aprinces are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth bgifts, and followeth after rewards: they cjudge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
b
Isa. 3: 14.
  14 The Lord will enter into ajudgment with the bancients of his people, and the cprinces thereof: for ye have deaten up the vineyard; the espoil of the fpoor is in your houses.
Amos 3: 10.
  10 For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up aviolence and robbery in their palaces.
Alma 4: 12 (12-13)
  12 Yea, he saw great inequality among the people, some lifting themselves up with their pride, despising others, turning their backs upon the aneedy and the naked and those who were bhungry, and those who were athirst, and those who were sick and afflicted.