Amos 5:25
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25 “Did(A) you offer Me sacrifices and offerings
In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Acts 7:42-43
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42 Then (A)God turned and gave them up to worship (B)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:
(C)‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?
43 You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of your god Remphan,
Images which you made to worship;
And (D)I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
Ezekiel 20:8
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8 But they rebelled against Me and would not [a]obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, ‘I will (A)pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.’
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- Ezekiel 20:8 Lit. listen to
Nehemiah 9:18
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18 “Even (A)when they made a molded calf for themselves,
And said, ‘This is your god
That brought you up out of Egypt,’
And worked great provocations,
Nehemiah 9:21
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21 (A)Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness;
They lacked nothing;
Their (B)clothes did not wear out
And their feet did not swell.
Joshua 24:14
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14 (A)“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in (B)sincerity and in truth, and (C)put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of [a]the River and (D)in Egypt. Serve the Lord!
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- Joshua 24:14 The Euphrates
Leviticus 17:7
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7 They shall no more offer their sacrifices (A)to [a]demons, after whom they (B)have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.” ’
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- Leviticus 17:7 Having the form of a goat or satyr
Zechariah 7:5
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5 “Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you (A)fasted and mourned in the fifth (B)and seventh months (C)during those seventy years, did you really fast (D)for Me—for Me?
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Hosea 9:9-10
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9 (A)They are deeply corrupted,
As in the days of (B)Gibeah.
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.
10 “I found Israel
Like grapes in the (C)wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the (D)firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to (E)Baal Peor,
And [a]separated themselves to that shame;
(F)They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
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- Hosea 9:10 Or dedicated
Ezekiel 20:24
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24 (A)because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and (B)their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.
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Ezekiel 20:16
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16 (A)because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for (B)their heart went after their idols.
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Deuteronomy 32:17-19
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17 (A)They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
18 (B)Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have (C)forgotten the God who fathered you.
19 “And(D) when the Lord saw it, He spurned them,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
Isaiah 43:23-24
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23 (A)You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings,
Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices.
I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings,
Nor wearied you with incense.
24 You have bought Me no sweet cane with money,
Nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices;
But you have burdened Me with your sins,
You have (B)wearied Me with your iniquities.
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