Baruch 6:26
New Revised Standard Version
Having no feet, they are carried on the shoulders of others, revealing to humankind their worthlessness. And those who serve them are put to shame

New American Bible
because, if they fall to the ground, the worshipers must pick them up. They neither move of themselves if one sets them upright, nor come upright if they are tipped over; offerings are set out for them as for the dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead.

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Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead.

Baruch 6:24
Men buy them at a high price, whereas there is no breath in them.

Baruch 6:25
And having not the use of feet they are carried upon shoulders, declaring to men how vile they are. Be they confounded also that worship them.

Baruch 6:27
The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor.

Baruch 6:28
The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not.

Context
Baruch 6
25And having not the use of feet they are carried upon shoulders, declaring to men how vile they are. Be they confounded also that worship them. 26Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead. 27The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor.…
Cross References
Baruch 6:24
Men buy them at a high price, whereas there is no breath in them.

Baruch 6:25
And having not the use of feet they are carried upon shoulders, declaring to men how vile they are. Be they confounded also that worship them.

Baruch 6:27
The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor.

Baruch 6:28
The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not.



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Baruch 6:25
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