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42 So God turned away from them and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:

‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
    during those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?
43 No, you carried aloft the tent of Moloch
    and the star of your god Rephan,
    the images that you had made to worship.
And so I shall send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

44 “While they were in the desert, our ancestors had the Tent of Testimony, as God commanded when he directed Moses to make it according to the pattern he had been shown.

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