Leviticus 17:7
The people must no longer offer their sacrifices to goat idols, for which they act as prostitutes. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their people's generations.'
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Exodus 22:20Whoever sacrifices to any god except to Yahweh must be completely destroyed.
Exodus 32:8They have quickly left the way that I commanded them. They have molded for themselves a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it. They have said, 'Israel, this is your god who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'”
Leviticus 3:17It will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations in every place you make your home, that you must not eat fat or blood.'”
Deuteronomy 31:16Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, you will sleep with your fathers; this people will rise up and act like a prostitute going after the strange gods that are among them in the land where they are going. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
2 Chronicles 11:15Jeroboam appointed for himself priests for the high places and the goat and calf idols he had made.
Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, 1 will he return to her again? Would that land not be greatly polluted? 1 You have lived as a prostitute who has many lovers; and would you return to me?—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 17:2-10
Directions Concerning Sacrifices. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying, 3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, 4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the… Read the whole commentary →