Amos 5:25

New International Version

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

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Amos 5:25

King James Version

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

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Acts 7:42-43

New International Version

⁴²But 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?
⁴³You 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

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

Acts 7:42-43

King James Version

⁴²Then 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?

⁴³Yea, 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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Ezekiel 20:8

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⁸“‘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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Ezekiel 20:8

King James Version

⁸But 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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Nehemiah 9:18

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¹⁸even 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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Nehemiah 9:18

King James Version

¹⁸Yea, 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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Nehemiah 9:21

New International Version

²¹For 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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Nehemiah 9:21

King James Version

²¹Yea, 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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Joshua 24:14

New International Version

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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Joshua 24:14

King James Version

¹⁴Now 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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Leviticus 17:7

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⁷They 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

Leviticus 17:7 Or the demons

Leviticus 17:7

King James Version

⁷And 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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Zechariah 7:5

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⁵“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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Zechariah 7:5

King James Version

⁵Speak 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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Hosea 9:9-10

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⁹They 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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Hosea 9:9-10

King James Version

⁹They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

¹⁰I 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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Ezekiel 20:24

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²⁴because 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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Ezekiel 20:24

King James Version

²⁴Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

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Ezekiel 20:16

New International Version

¹⁶because 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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Ezekiel 20:16

King James Version

¹⁶Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

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Deuteronomy 32:17-19

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¹⁷They 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.
¹⁸You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot^(E) the God who gave you birth.

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

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Deuteronomy 32:17-19

King James Version

¹⁷They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

¹⁸Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

¹⁹And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

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Isaiah 43:23-24

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²³You 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)
²⁴You 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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Isaiah 43:23-24

King James Version

²³Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

²⁴Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

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