Deuteronomy 31:16
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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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- 31:16 Prostitute themselves: lit., “whore after,” a play on the phrase “go after,” viz. after other gods.
Psalm 78:58
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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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- 78:58 Provoked him: lit., “made him jealous.”
Psalm 81:9
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9 ‘Listen, my people, I will testify against you
Selah
If only you will listen to me, Israel!(A)
Psalm 106:34-39
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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.
Footnotes
- 106:37 Demons: Hebrew shedim occurs in parallelism with “gods” in an important inscription from Transjordan and hence can also be translated “the gods.”
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