¹⁹ And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, ^(A)all the host of heaven, ^(B)and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

³ and has gone and ^(A)served other gods and worshiped them, ^(B)or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, ^(C)which I have not commanded,

¹⁷ But rather we will certainly ^(A)carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, ^[a]by burning ^[b]sacrifices to the ^(B)queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as ^(C)we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had ^(D)plenty of ^[c]food and were well off and saw no ^[d]misfortune.