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A Command to Moses. 16 The Lord said to Moses, Soon you will be at rest with your ancestors, and then this people will prostitute themselves[a] by following the foreign gods among whom they will live in the land they are about to enter.(A) They will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.

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  1. 31:16 Prostitute themselves: lit., “whore after,” a play on the phrase “go after,” viz. after other gods.

16 And the Lord said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors,(A) and these people will soon prostitute(B) themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake(C) me and break the covenant I made with them.

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58 They enraged him with their high places,
    and with their idols provoked him[a] to jealous anger.(A)

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  1. 78:58 Provoked him: lit., “made him jealous.”

58 They angered him(A) with their high places;(B)
    they aroused his jealousy with their idols.(C)

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‘Listen, my people, I will testify against you
Selah
    If only you will listen to me, Israel!(A)

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You shall have no foreign god(A) among you;
    you shall not worship any god other than me.

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VIII

34 They did not destroy the peoples
    as the Lord had commanded them,(A)
35 But mingled with the nations
    and imitated their ways.(B)
36 They served their idols
    and were ensnared by them.(C)
37 They sacrificed to demons[a]
    their own sons and daughters,
38 Shedding innocent blood,
    the blood of their own sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    desecrating the land with bloodshed.
39 They defiled themselves by their actions,
    became adulterers by their conduct.

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  1. 106:37 Demons: Hebrew shedim occurs in parallelism with “gods” in an important inscription from Transjordan and hence can also be translated “the gods.”

34 They did not destroy(A) the peoples
    as the Lord had commanded(B) them,
35 but they mingled(C) with the nations
    and adopted their customs.
36 They worshiped their idols,(D)
    which became a snare(E) to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons(F)
    and their daughters to false gods.(G)
38 They shed innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons(H) and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was desecrated by their blood.
39 They defiled themselves(I) by what they did;
    by their deeds they prostituted(J) themselves.

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