Ezekiel 8:10
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10 So I went in and looked; there, portrayed on the wall all around, were all kinds of creeping things and loathsome animals and all the idols of the house of Israel.(A)
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Exodus 20:4
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4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.(A)
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Romans 1:23
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23 and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.(A)
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Jeremiah 16:18
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18 And[a] I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.(A)
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Jeremiah 3:9
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9 Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.(A)
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Jeremiah 2:26-27
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26 As a thief is shamed when caught,
so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
they, their kings, their officials,
their priests, and their prophets,(A)
27 who say to a tree, “You are my father,”
and to a stone, “You gave me birth.”
For they have turned their backs to me
and not their faces.
But in the time of their trouble they say,
“Come and save us!”(B)
Isaiah 57:6-10
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6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion;
it is they who are your lot;
to them you have poured out a drink offering;
you have brought a grain offering.
Should these acts cause me to relent?(A)
7 Upon a high and lofty mountain
you have set your bed,
and there you went up to offer sacrifice.(B)
8 Behind the door and the doorpost
you have set up your symbol,
for in deserting me[a] you have uncovered your bed;
you have gone up to it;
you have made it wide;
and you have made a bargain for yourself with them;
you have loved their bed;
you have gazed on their nakedness.[b](C)
9 You journeyed to Molech[c] with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your envoys far away
and sent them down to Sheol.(D)
10 You grew weary from your many wanderings,
but you did not say, “It is no use!”
You found your desire rekindled,
and so you did not weaken.(E)
Deuteronomy 14:7-8
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7 Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cleft you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger because they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. 8 And the pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses.(A)
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Deuteronomy 14:3
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Deuteronomy 4:18
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18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.
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Leviticus 11:42-44
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42 Whatever moves on its belly and whatever moves on all fours or whatever has many feet, all the creatures that swarm upon the earth you shall not eat, for they are detestable. 43 You shall not make yourselves detestable with any creature that swarms; you shall not defile yourselves with them and so become unclean.(A) 44 For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.(B)
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Leviticus 11:29-31
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29 “These are unclean for you among the creatures that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, the mouse, lizards of every kind,(A) 30 the gecko, the land crocodile, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon. 31 These are unclean for you among all that swarm; whoever touches one of them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
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Leviticus 11:10-12
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10 But anything in the seas or the streams that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and among all the other living creatures that are in the waters—they are detestable to you,(A) 11 and detestable they shall remain. Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall regard as detestable. 12 Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.
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