Leviticus 17:7 “They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which…”

Leviticus 17:7

They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.’

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they shall no more offer their offerings vnto deuils, after whom they haue gone a whoring: this shalbe an ordinance for euer vnto them in their generations.

Darby Translation

And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto demons, after whom they go a whoring. This shall be an everlasting statute unto them for their generations.

Young's Literal Translation

and they sacrifice not any more their sacrifices to goats after which they are going a-whoring; a statute age-during is this to them, to their generations.

Bible in Basic English

And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.

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Cross references

“unto devils”

1 Corinthians 10:20 Deuteronomy 32:17 2 Chronicles 11:15 Psalm 106:37 Revelation 9:20 John 12:31

1 Corinthians 10:20 · BSB

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

Deuteronomy 32:17 · BSB

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

2 Chronicles 11:15 · BSB

And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

Psalm 106:37 · BSB

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Revelation 9:20 · BSB

Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or h…

John 12:31 · BSB

Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.

“gone a whoring”

Exodus 34:15 Leviticus 20:5 Deuteronomy 31:16 Ezekiel 23:8 Revelation 17:1–5 Jeremiah 3:1

Exodus 34:15 · BSB

Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

Leviticus 20:5 · BSB

then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

Deuteronomy 31:16 · BSB

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant…

Ezekiel 23:8 · BSB

She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

Revelation 17:1–5 · BSB

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

Jeremiah 3:1 · BSB

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?” decla…

Also

Exodus 22:20 Exodus 32:8

Exodus 22:20 · BSB

If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.

Exodus 32:8 · BSB

How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brou…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6The priest will then splatter the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

8Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

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