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and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
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Verse 19. Service. How then could the nations give way to such stupidity, but because they had forgotten the design of God in creating the heavenly bodies, which Moses therefore takes care to inculcate? Genesis 1:14. Hebrew and Septuagint “which God has divided unto all,” and so forth; whence some have falsely supposed, that God had tolerated the worship of the stars in other nations. See Calmet. 29:26. Drusius. Calmet.
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