Amos 4:4-6

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⁴“Go to Bethel and sin. Go to Gilgal^[a] and sin even more. Offer your sacrifices in the morning. Bring a tenth of your crops for the three-day festival. ⁵And offer a thank offering made with yeast. Tell everyone about the freewill offerings.^[b] Israel, you love to do those things. So go and do them.” This is what the Lord God said.

⁶“I didn’t give you any food to eat.^[c] There was no food in any of your cities, but you didn’t come back to me.” This is what the Lord said.

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Footnotes

Amos 4:4 Bethel … Gilgal Places of worship for the people of Israel. God wanted the people of Israel and the people of Judah to worship him only in the Temple at Jerusalem.
Amos 4:5 Offer your sacrifices … freewill offerings All these things were against the Law of Moses. The leaders and false priests started these new festivals and different ways of worshiping God.
Amos 4:6 I didn’t give you any food to eat Literally, “I gave you clean teeth.”