But they provoked me and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. And I said I would pour out my indignation upon them and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Yea, when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt; and had committed great blasphemies.
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and most sincere heart. And put away the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with whom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.
Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?
Because they had not done my judgments and had cast off my statutes and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.