Hosea6:7

Translation

but they, like Adam, went beyond

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the covenant.

Paraphrase

but they acted like the first covenant-breaker, they invalidated the covenant by acting outside of its parameters.

Footnotes

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“went beyond” carries with it a sense of movement and usually means things like, “to pass, to go beyond, to cross over.” It can also mean “to invalidate by going beyond or crossing over a barrier, e.g. a law or covenantal condition.”