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Leviticus 17:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Don't ever turn from me again and offer sacrifices to goat-demons. This law will never change.

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Jeroboam chose his own priests to serve at the local shrines in Israel and at the places of worship where he had set up statues of goat-demons and of calves.

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons

By doing such gruesome things, they also became filthy.

Death is the punishment for having sex with an animal.

Death is the punishment for offering sacrifices to any god except me.

in front of the curtain that separates the holy place from the most holy place, where the sacred chest is kept. Aaron and his sons are responsible for keeping the lamp burning every night in the sacred tent. The Israelites must always obey this command.

They have already stopped obeying me and have made themselves an idol in the shape of a young bull. They have bowed down to it, offered sacrifices, and said that it is the god who brought them out of Egypt.

Don't make treaties with the people there, or you will soon find yourselves worshipping their gods and taking part in their sacrificial meals.

The LORD said to the people of Israel: If a divorced woman marries, can her first husband ever marry her again? No, because this would pollute the land. But you have more gods than a prostitute has lovers. Why should I take you back?

While they were young and living in Egypt, they became prostitutes.

Once she started doing these things in Egypt, she never stopped. Men slept with her, and she was always ready for sex.

Remember! No one in Israel, including foreigners, is to offer a sacrifice anywhere

but not me. If any of you worship Molech, I will turn against you and your entire family, and I will no longer let you belong to my people.

So you and your descendants must never eat any fat or any blood, not even in the privacy of your own homes. This law will never change.

This world's people are now being judged, and the ruler of this world is already being thrown out!

I cannot speak with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. But he has no power over me.

No, I am not! That food is really sacrificed to demons and not to God. I don't want you to have anything to do with demons.

The god who rules this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers. They cannot see the light, which is the good news about our glorious Christ, who shows what God is like.

You followed the ways of this world and obeyed the devil. He rules the world, and his spirit has power over everyone who doesn't obey God.

The LORD said: Moses, you will soon die. But Israel is going into a land where other gods are worshipped, and Israel will reject me and start worshipping these gods. The people will break the agreement I made with them,

You offered sacrifices to demons, those useless gods that never helped you, new gods that your ancestors never worshipped.

The people who lived through these terrible troubles did not turn away from the idols they had made, and they did not stop worshipping demons. They kept on worshipping idols that were made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood. Not one of these idols could see, hear, or walk.




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