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Psalm 106:37

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons

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and was even more sinful than the kings of Israel. He sacrificed his own son, which was a disgusting custom of the nations that the LORD had forced out of Israel.

They used magic and witchcraft and even sacrificed their own children. The Israelites were determined to do whatever the LORD hated.

and even set up the pole for Asherah there. Manasseh practised magic and witchcraft; he asked fortune-tellers for advice and sacrificed his own son. He did many sinful things and made the LORD very angry. Years ago the LORD had told David and his son Solomon: Jerusalem is the place I prefer above all others in Israel. It belongs to me, and there I will be worshipped for ever.

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.

All you think about is sex under those green trees where idols are worshipped. You sacrifice your children on altars built in valleys under rocky slopes.

And they led Judah into sin by building places to worship Baal in Hinnom Valley, where they also sacrificed their sons and daughters to the god Molech. I have never even thought of telling them to commit such disgusting sins.

At Topheth in Hinnom Valley you have built altars where you kill your children and burn them as sacrifices to other gods. I would never think of telling you to do this.

and I let them offer me unacceptable sacrifices, including their firstborn sons. I did this to horrify them and to let them know that I, the LORD, was punishing them.

by worshipping idols and by sacrificing their own children as offerings. They commit these sins and still think they can ask me for a message. As surely as I am the living LORD God, I will give them no answer.

They have been unfaithful by worshipping idols, and they have committed murder by sacrificing my own children as offerings to idols.

They will stone you to death and cut you to pieces; they will kill your children and burn down your houses.

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

Don't sacrifice your children on the altar fires to the god Molech. I am the LORD your God, and that would disgrace me.

But, my friend, I ask, “Who do you think you are to question God? Does the clay have the right to ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did?

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.

Don't sacrifice your son or daughter. And don't try to use any kind of magic or witchcraft to tell fortunes or to cast spells or to talk with spirits of the dead.

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




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