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19 and lest you 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 Yahweh your God has apportioned for all the peoples under the whole heaven.

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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,

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26 If I have (A)looked at the [a]sun when it shone
Or the moon going in splendor,
27 And my heart became secretly enticed,
And my hand [b]threw a kiss from my mouth,
28 That too would have been (B)an iniquity calling for [c]judgment,
For I would have (C)denied God above.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:26 Lit light
  2. Job 31:27 Lit kissed my mouth
  3. Job 31:28 Lit judges

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

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:17 Or so as to burn
  2. Jeremiah 44:17 Lit bread