25 (A)“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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25 “Did you bring me sacrifices(A) and offerings
    forty years(B) in the wilderness, people of Israel?

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42 But (A)God turned away and (B)gave them over to worship (C)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

(D)“‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices,
    (E)during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43 You took up the tent of (F)Moloch
    and the star of your god Rephan,
    the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

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42 But God turned away from them(A) and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars.(B) This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:

“‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
    forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
43 You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
    and the star of your god Rephan,
    the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile’[a](C) beyond Babylon.

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  1. Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (see Septuagint)

(A)But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. (B)None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.

“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them (C)and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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“‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me;(A) they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.(B) So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt.(C)

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18 Even (A)when they had made for themselves a golden[a] calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ (B)and had committed great blasphemies,

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  1. Nehemiah 9:18 Hebrew metal

18 even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf(A) and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.(B)

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21 (A)Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

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21 For forty years(A) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,(B) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.(C)

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Choose Whom You Will Serve

14 (A)“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. (B)Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

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14 “Now fear the Lord(A) and serve him with all faithfulness.(B) Throw away the gods(C) your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt,(D) and serve the Lord.

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So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they (A)whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

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They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols[a](A) to whom they prostitute themselves.(B) This is to be a lasting ordinance(C) for them and for the generations to come.’(D)

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  1. Leviticus 17:7 Or the demons

“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in (A)the fifth month and in (B)the seventh, for these (C)seventy years, (D)was it (E)for me that you fasted?

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“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted(A) and mourned in the fifth and seventh(B) months for the past seventy years,(C) was it really for me that you fasted?

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(A)They have deeply corrupted themselves
    as (B)in the days of Gibeah:
(C)he will remember their iniquity;
    he will punish their sins.

10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
    (D)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
    in its first season,
    I saw your fathers.
But (E)they came to Baal-peor
    and (F)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
    and (G)became detestable like the thing they loved.

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They have sunk deep into corruption,(A)
    as in the days of Gibeah.(B)
God will remember(C) their wickedness
    and punish them for their sins.(D)

10 “When I found Israel,
    it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
    it was like seeing the early fruit(E) on the fig(F) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(G)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(H)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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24 because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, (A)and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.

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24 because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees(A) and desecrated my Sabbaths,(B) and their eyes lusted after(C) their parents’ idols.(D)

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16 because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; (A)for their heart went after their idols.

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16 because they rejected my laws(A) and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts(B) were devoted to their idols.(C)

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17 (A)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
    to gods they had never known,
to (B)new gods that had come recently,
    whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (C)the Rock that bore[a] you,
    and you (D)forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 (E)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of (F)his sons and his daughters.

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered

17 They sacrificed(A) to false gods,(B) which are not God—
    gods they had not known,(C)
    gods that recently appeared,(D)
    gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot(E) the God who gave you birth.

19 The Lord saw this and rejected them(F)
    because he was angered by his sons and daughters.(G)

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23 (A)You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings,
    or honored me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings,
    (B)or wearied you with frankincense.
24 You have not bought me sweet cane with money,
    or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.
But you have burdened me with your sins;
    you have wearied me with your iniquities.

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23 You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings,(A)
    nor honored(B) me with your sacrifices.(C)
I have not burdened(D) you with grain offerings
    nor wearied you with demands(E) for incense.(F)
24 You have not bought any fragrant calamus(G) for me,
    or lavished on me the fat(H) of your sacrifices.
But you have burdened me with your sins
    and wearied(I) me with your offenses.(J)

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