Amos 5:25
Good News Translation
"People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert.

New Revised Standard Version
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Contemporary English Version
Israel, for forty years you wandered in the desert, without bringing offerings or sacrifices to me.

New American Bible
Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with whom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.

Deuteronomy 32:17-19 They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not. . . .

Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and most sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Nehemiah 9:18,21 Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies: . . .

Isaiah 43:23,24 Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast thou glorified me with thy victims: I have not caused thee to serve with oblations, nor wearied thee with incense. . . .

Ezekiel 20:8,16,24 But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. . . .

Hosea 9:9,10 They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin. . . .

Zechariah 7:5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

Acts 7:42,43 And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel? . . .

Context
The Day of the LORD
24But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent. 25Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?26But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.…
Cross References
Acts 7:42
And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

Acts 7:43
And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and most sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Nehemiah 9:18
Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:

Isaiah 43:23
Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast thou glorified me with thy victims: I have not caused thee to serve with oblations, nor wearied thee with incense.

Amos 5:24
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