The people must no longer be unfaithful to the Lord by offering sacrifices to the goat idols. This is a permanent law for them, to be observed from generation to generation.

他们不可再献祭给他们行邪淫所随从的鬼魔；这要作他们世世代代永远的定例。

他们不可再宰杀祭牲献给他们行淫所随从的山羊鬼魔。这要作他们世世代代永远的定例。

他们不可再宰杀祭牲献给他们行淫所随从的山羊鬼魔。这要作他们世世代代永远的定例。

他们不可再献祭物给山羊神，与其苟合。这是一条永远不变的律例，他们世世代代都要遵守。

他们不可再杀祭牲，献给那些山羊，就是他们所随从行邪淫的鬼神。这要作他们世世代代永远的律例。

他們不可再獻祭給他們行邪淫所隨從的鬼魔；這要作他們世世代代永遠的定例。

他們不可再宰殺祭牲獻給他們行淫所隨從的山羊鬼魔。這要作他們世世代代永遠的定例。

他們不可再宰殺祭牲獻給他們行淫所隨從的山羊鬼魔。這要作他們世世代代永遠的定例。

他們不可再獻祭物給山羊神，與其苟合。這是一條永遠不變的律例，他們世世代代都要遵守。

他們不可再殺祭牲，獻給那些山羊，就是他們所隨從行邪淫的鬼神。這要作他們世世代代永遠的律例。

他們不可再宰祭牲獻給野山羊神，就是他們變節所服事的；這要給他們做世世代代永遠的條例。

勿復狥欲、祭牡山羊狀之鬼神、著為永例、歷世弗替、○

勿再狥欲、祭諸魑魅、著為永例、歷世勿替。

以色列人毋再祀其所妄從之鬼魔、當歷代守此、以為永例、

They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols to whom they prostitute themselves. This is to be a lasting ordinance for them and for the generations to come.’

The Israelites must stop offering any of their sacrifices to statues of gods that look like goats. When they offer sacrifices to those statues, they are not faithful to me. This is a law for them that will last for all time to come.” ’

So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.

And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons with which they play the prostitute. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations.” ’

They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.”’

And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the he- goats, after which they play the harlot. This shall be a statute forever unto them throughout their generations.

They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.

And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.

They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’

“ You must not make a treaty of any kind with the people living in the land. They lust after their gods, offering sacrifices to them. They will invite you to join them in their sacrificial meals, and you will go with them.

No, not at all. I am saying that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God. And I don’t want you to participate with demons.

They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God, to gods they had not known before, to new gods only recently arrived, to gods their ancestors had never feared.

Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the pagan shrines, where they worshiped the goat and calf idols he had made.

They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.

“ Anyone who sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.

How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted down gold and made a calf, and they have bowed down and sacrificed to it. They are saying,‘ These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

The Lord said to Moses,“ You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

I myself will turn against them and their families and will cut them off from the community. This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution by worshiping Molech.

But the people who did not die in these plagues still refused to repent of their evil deeds and turn to God. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood— idols that can neither see nor hear nor walk!

One of the seven angels who had poured out the seven bowls came over and spoke to me.“ Come with me,” he said,“ and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on the great prostitute, who rules over many waters.The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by the wine of her immorality.”So the angel took me in the Spirit into the wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns, and blasphemies against God were written all over it.The woman wore purple and scarlet clothing and beautiful jewelry made of gold and precious gems and pearls. In her hand she held a gold goblet full of obscenities and the impurities of her immorality.A mysterious name was written on her forehead:“ Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.”

You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil— the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.

The time for judging this world has come, when Satan, the ruler of this world, will be cast out.

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

“ I don’t have much more time to talk to you, because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me,

“ If a man divorces a woman and she goes and marries someone else, he will not take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, so why are you trying to come back to me?” says the Lord.

For when she left Egypt, she did not leave her spirit of prostitution behind. She was still as lewd as in her youth, when the Egyptians slept with her, fondled her breasts, and used her as a prostitute.