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Deuteronomy 32:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known, new gods that had just arrived, which your ancestors did not fear.

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Israel chose new gods, then there was war in the city gates. Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.


Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other,  and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone,  which neither you nor your ancestors have known.


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.


Now the Spirit  explicitly says that in later times  some will depart from the faith,  paying attention to deceitful spirits  and the teachings of demons,


Do not be startled or afraid. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me? There is no other Rock;  I do not know any.


They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.


The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands  to stop worshipping demons  and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood,  which cannot see, hear, or walk.


About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.


They are worthless, a work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.


They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, “Israel, these are your gods, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” ’


because of the evil they committed to anger me,  by going and burning incense to serve other gods that they, you, and your ancestors did not know.


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


do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity,  and do not spare him or shield him.


because they have abandoned me  and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.





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