Deuteronomy 32:17
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17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to deities they had never known,
to new ones recently arrived,
whom your ancestors had not feared.(A)
Ezekiel 20:8
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8 But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; not one of them cast away the detestable things on which their eyes feasted, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.
Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.(A)
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Ezekiel 20:16
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16 because they rejected my ordinances and did not observe my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.(A)
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Acts 7:42
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42 But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
‘Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?(A)
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