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Genesis 4:3-5
In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the LORD.And Abel also presented an offering— some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. The LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.
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Leviticus 20:3
I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.
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Hosea 4:4-5
But let no one dispute; let no one argue, for my case is against you priests.You will stumble by day; the prophet will also stumble with you by night. And I will destroy your mother.
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Joshua 23:12-13
If you ever turn away and become loyal to the rest of these nations remaining among you, and if you intermarry or associate with them and they with you,know for certain that the LORD your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you, a sharp stick for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God has given you.
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Zechariah 12:7
The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of David’s house and the glory of Jerusalem’s residents may not be greater than that of Judah.
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Malachi 2:10
Don’t all of us have one Father? Didn’t one God create us? Why then do we act treacherously against one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?
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Ezekiel 24:21
Say to the house of Israel,‘ This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
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1 Samuel 2 31-1 Samuel 2 34
Look, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your forefather’s family, so that none in your family will reach old age.You will see distress in the place of worship, in spite of all that is good in Israel, and no one in your family will ever again reach old age.Any man from your family I do not cut off from my altar will bring grief and sadness to you. All your descendants will die violently.This will be the sign that will come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: both of them will die on the same day.
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Isaiah 66:3
One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol— all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.
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Isaiah 61:8
For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and injustice; I will faithfully reward my people and make a permanent covenant with them.
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Amos 5:22
Even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.
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Isaiah 9:14-16
So the LORD cut off Israel’s head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day.The head is the elder, the honored one; the tail is the prophet, the one teaching lies.The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
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Numbers 15:30-31
“ But the person who acts defiantly, whether native or resident alien, blasphemes the LORD. That person is to be cut off from his people.He will certainly be cut off, because he has despised the LORD’s word and broken his command; his guilt remains on him.”
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Numbers 24:5
How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your dwellings, Israel.
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1 Samuel 15 22-1 Samuel 15 23
Then Samuel said: Does the LORD take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? Look: to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.
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Ezra 10:18-19
The following were found to have married foreign women from the descendants of the priests: from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.They pledged to send their wives away, and being guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt;
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Leviticus 18:29
Any person who does any of these detestable practices is to be cut off from his people.
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Ezekiel 14:10
They will bear their punishment— the punishment of the one who inquires will be the same as that of the prophet—
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Isaiah 24:1-2
Look, the LORD is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:people and priest alike, servant and master, female servant and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
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Matthew 15:14
Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
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2 Timothy 3 13
Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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1 Chronicles 25 8
They cast lots for their duties, young and old alike, teacher as well as pupil.
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Malachi 1:10
“ I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of Armies,“ and I will accept no offering from your hands.
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Revelation 19:20
But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with it the false prophet, who had performed the signs in its presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
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1 Samuel 3 14
Therefore, I have sworn to Eli’s family: The iniquity of Eli’s family will never be wiped out by either sacrifice or offering.”
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Nehemiah 13:28-29
Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him away from me.Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
