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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25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house 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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Footnotes

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

42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

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(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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But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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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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18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

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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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21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

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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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14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye 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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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 17:7 Or the demons

And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

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“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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Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

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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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They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

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