Deuteronomy 32:17
Good News Translation
They sacrificed to gods that are not real, new gods their ancestors had never known, gods that Israel had never obeyed.

New Revised Standard Version
They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared.

Contemporary English Version
You offered sacrifices to demons, those useless gods that never helped you, new gods that your ancestors never worshiped.

New American Bible
They sacrificed to demons, to “no-gods,” to gods they had never known, Newcomers from afar, before whom your ancestors had never trembled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

sacrificed

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.

Psalm 106:37,38 And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:20 But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils,

Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not adore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk:

not to God.

Deuteronomy 32:21 They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

Jeremiah 10:15 They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

1 Corinthians 8:4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 10:19 What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing?

to gods

Deuteronomy 28:64 The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.

Isaiah 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?

to new gods

Judges 5:8 The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the enemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of Israel.

Context
The Song of Moses
16They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. 17They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.18Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:20
But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

Exodus 32:8
They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

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 28:64
The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

Judges 5:8
The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the enemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of Israel.

Psalm 106:37
And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.

Jeremiah 44:3
Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods, which neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.

Amos 5:25
Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

Deuteronomy 32:16
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