And I said to them, (A)‘Cast away the detestable things (B)your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with (C)the idols of Egypt; (D)I am the Lord your God.’

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(A)You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and (B)you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.

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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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31 (A)Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and (B)make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! (C)Why will you die, O house of Israel?

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16 “You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed. 17 And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them. 18 Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you (A)a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,

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44 For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and (A)be holy, for I am holy. (B)You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

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She did not give up her whoring (A)that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.

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(A)They played the whore in Egypt; (B)they played the whore (C)in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms[a] handled.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:3 Hebrew nipples; also verses 8, 21

19 (A)I am the Lord your God; (B)walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,

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15 he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife,

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if he (A)does not eat upon the mountains or (B)lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, (C)does not defile his neighbor's wife (D)or approach (E)a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,

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“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: (A)Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

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then those of you who escape (A)will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how (B)I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes (C)that go whoring after their idols. (D)And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

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For in that day (A)everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

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20 In that day (A)mankind will cast away
    their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
    to the moles and to the (B)bats,
21 (C)to enter the caverns of the rocks
    and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    (D)when he rises to terrify the earth.

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As soon as Asa heard these words, (A)the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from (B)the cities that he had taken in (C)the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the Lord (D)that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 15:8 Hebrew the vestibule of the Lord

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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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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(A)“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

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(A)“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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12 “I (A)have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At (B)twilight you shall eat meat, and (C)in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”

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(A)Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

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