Deuteronomy 32:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; To gods whom they knew not, To new gods that came newly up, Whom your fathers feared not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They sacrificed to demons, not to God–to gods whom they knew not, to new gods lately come up, whom your fathers never knew or feared. American Standard Version (1901) They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To new gods that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not. Common English Bible They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to deities of which they had no knowledge— new gods only recently on the scene, ones about which your ancestors had never heard. Catholic Public Domain Version They immolated to demons and not to God, to gods whom they did not know, who were new and recent arrivals, whom their fathers did not worship. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not. |
they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”
Do not fear or be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? You are my witnesses! Is there any god besides me? There is no other rock; I know not one.
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
because of the wickedness that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings to and serve other gods that they had not known, neither they, nor you, nor your ancestors.
so that they may no longer offer their sacrifices for goat-demons, to whom they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”
you must not yield to or heed any such persons. Show them no pity or compassion, and do not shield them.
The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
They made me jealous with what is no god, provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no people, provoke them with a foolish nation.
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?