Letter of Jeremiah 8-10

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⁸ People^[a] take gold and make crowns for the heads of their gods, as they might for a young woman who loves ornaments. ⁹ Sometimes the priests secretly take gold and silver from their gods and spend it on themselves ¹⁰ or even give some of it to the prostitutes on the terrace. They deck their gods^[b] out with garments like humans—these gods of silver and gold and wood^(A)