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Amos 5:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?

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‘ “But they rebelled against me and were unwilling to listen to me. None of them threw away the abhorrent things that they prized,  and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them,  exhausting my anger against them within the land of Egypt.


Even after they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,’ and they had committed terrible blasphemies,


You provided for them in the wilderness for forty years, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.


‘Therefore, fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth.  Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshipped  beyond the River Euphrates and in Egypt, and worship the Lord.


They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons  that they have prostituted  themselves with. This will be a permanent statute  for them throughout their generations.


‘Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?


For they did not practise my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed  on their fathers’ idols.


because they rejected my ordinances, profaned my Sabbaths, and did not follow my statutes. For their hearts went after their idols.





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