Forbidden Forms of Worship
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a "You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.
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b "You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
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"You a shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep which has any blemish or defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.
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b "If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, c in transgressing His covenant,
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"who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either d the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, e which I have not commanded,
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f "and it is told you, and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,
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"then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and g shall stone h to death that man or woman with stones.
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"Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three i witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
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"The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among j you.
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Cross References
Exodus 34:13
But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:1
You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:21
But if there is a defect in it, if it is lame or blind or has any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
Malachi 1:8
And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, Is it not evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, Is it not evil? Offer it then to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you favorably?" Says the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 1:13
You also say, 'Oh, what a weariness!' And you sneer at it," Says the LORD of hosts. "And you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick; Thus you bring an offering! Should I accept this from your hand?" Says the LORD.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers.
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Cross References
Joshua 7:11
Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both stolen and deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:19
And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 7:22
For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:12
If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell in, saying.
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination was committed among you.
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Cross References
Leviticus 24:14 - 16
Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Joshua 7:25
And Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you this day." So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:6 - 18
If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:30
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Deuteronomy 19:15
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Matthew 18:16
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John 8:17
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2 Corinthians 13:1
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1 Timothy 5:19
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Hebrews 10:28
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:5
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 19:19
Then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.
1 Corinthians 5:13
But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person.
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