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Deuteronomy 7:26

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to abhor and detest it utterly because it is set apart for destruction.

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Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the Lord will turn from his burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as he swore to your ancestors.


Ephraim, why should I  have anything more to do with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing pine tree; your fruit comes from me.


‘When they arrive there, they will remove all its  abhorrent acts  and detestable practices from it.


Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.


You who say, ‘You must not commit adultery’ #– #do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples?


For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel separates himself from me, setting up idols in his heart and putting his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet to enquire of me, I, the Lord, will answer him myself.


I will send it out,’   #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #‘and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.’


On that day people will throw their worthless idols of silver and gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats.


You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn the city and all its spoil for the Lord your God. The city is to remain a mound of ruins for ever;  it is not to be rebuilt.


This will occur if you obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commands I am giving you today, doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.


Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.





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