OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 7:18

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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

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Verse 18. Heaven. That is, the moon, which they worshipped under that name. Challoner.—Some understand the sun also the stars. Calmet. 44:17. Isaiah 65:11. All the family contributes to promote this idolatry.

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