OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 44:19

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The women said, “When we burned incense to the queen of the sky and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”

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Verse 19. Worship. Hebrew “to represent.” The cakes had a crescent on them. Calmet. See Hesychius in σεληναι.—Husbands. The women are most zealous. But all partook of this idolatry. Calmet. 7:18. Calmet.

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