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Deuteronomy 32:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread. "

Deuteronomy 32:17

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15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.

18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

19 The LORD saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

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Jeremiah 44:3

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"because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers."

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Deuteronomy 29:26

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"and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them."

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Psalms 106:37

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"Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons."

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1 Chronicles 5:25

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"They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land whom God destroyed before them."

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Baruch 4:7

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"For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God."

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2 Kings 17:33

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"They feared the LORD, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away."

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Deuteronomy 32:1

"Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth."

Deuteronomy 32:2

"My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb."

Deuteronomy 32:3

"For I will proclaim the LORD’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!"

Deuteronomy 32:4

"The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he."

Deuteronomy 32:5

"They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation."

Deuteronomy 32:6

"Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you."

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