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20 On that day people will throw away
    to the moles and to the bats
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
    which they made for themselves to worship,(A)

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For on that day all of you shall throw away your idols of silver and idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.(A)

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22 Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like impure things; you will say to them, “Away with you!”(A)

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19 the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 11.19 Identification of several of the birds in 11.13–19 is uncertain

Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.(A) More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ(B)

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O Ephraim, what have I[a] to do with idols?
    It is I who answer and look after you.[b]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
    your fruit comes from me.(A)

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  1. 14.8 Or What more has Ephraim
  2. 14.8 Heb him

Those who lavish gold from the purse
    and weigh out silver in the scales—
they hire a goldsmith, who makes it into a god;
    then they fall down and worship!(A)

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46 Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
    their idols are on beasts and cattle;
these things you carry are loaded
    as burdens on weary animals.(A)

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