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jeremiah 18:4 But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.
4. marred--spoiled. "Of clay" is the true reading, which was
corrupted into "as clay" (Margin), through the similarity of the
two Hebrew letters, and from
Jer 18:6,
"as the clay."