Amos 5:25
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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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Acts 7:42-43
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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.’
Ezekiel 20:8
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8 (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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Nehemiah 9:18
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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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- Nehemiah 9:18 Hebrew metal
Nehemiah 9:21
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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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Joshua 24:14
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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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Leviticus 17:7
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7 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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Hosea 9:9-10
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9 (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.
Ezekiel 20:24
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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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Ezekiel 20:16
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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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Deuteronomy 32:17-19
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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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- Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered
Isaiah 43:23-24
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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.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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