17 (A)They sacrificed to demons, who were not God,
(B)To gods whom they have not known,
(C)New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not know.

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“We Will Serve the Lord

14 “Now, therefore, [a](A)fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and [b]truth; and do away with the gods which your fathers served beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:14 Or revere
  2. Joshua 24:14 Or faithfulness

18 Even when they (A)made for themselves
A calf of cast metal
And said, ‘This is your [a]god
Who brought you up from Egypt,’
And committed great blasphemies,
19 (B)You, in Your great compassion,
Did not abandon them in the wilderness;
(C)The pillar of cloud did not leave them by day,
To guide them on their way,
Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go.
20 Instead, (D)You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
And You gave them water for their thirst.
21 Indeed, for (E)forty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not lacking;
Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell up.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:18 Or God; i.e., an idol intended to represent God

42 But God (A)turned away and gave them over to [a]serve the heavenly [b]lights; as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘(B)You did not offer Me victims and sacrifices (C)for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel? 43 (D)You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god [c]Rompha, the images which you made to worship. I also will deport you beyond Babylon.’

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:42 Or worship
  2. Acts 7:42 Lit host
  3. Acts 7:43 Other mss spell it: Romphan, Rempham, Raiphan; or Rephan

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