Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version because, if any of these gods falls to the ground, they themselves must pick it up. If anyone sets it upright, it cannot move itself; and if it is tipped over, it cannot straighten itself. Gifts are placed before them just as before the dead. New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 6:25And 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. Baruch 6:26 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 6:28 The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not. Baruch 6:29 For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood: Context Baruch 6…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. 28The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not.… Cross References 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 6:26 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 6:28 The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not. Baruch 6:29 For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood: |