King James Version (KJV)
Deuteronomy 32:16
“They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 32
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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