6:8

Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood: This verse indicates that many evil people lived in the city of Gilead. Many of them were murderers.

Here is another way to translate this clause:

Gilead is a city full of evildoers (NET Bible)

tracked with footprints of blood: This phrase is a metaphor. It means that many people murdered others there. Many versions keep the metaphor. For example:

their footprints are bloody (New Century Version)
-or-
its streets are stained with bloody footprints (NET Bible)

Some versions translate the meaning directly. For example:

Gilead is a city full of evil people and murderers (Good News Translation)

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