Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version Whatever is done for these idols is false. Why then must anyone think that they are gods, or call them gods? New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods? Baruch 6:42The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones. Baruch 6:43 And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. Baruch 6:45 And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what the priests will have them to be. Baruch 6:46 For the artificers themselves that make them, are of no long continuance. Can those things then that are made by them, be gods? Context Baruch 6…43And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. 44But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods? 45And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what the priests will have them to be.… Cross References Baruch 6:42 The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones. Baruch 6:43 And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. Baruch 6:45 And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what the priests will have them to be. Baruch 6:46 For the artificers themselves that make them, are of no long continuance. Can those things then that are made by them, be gods? |
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