17They sacrificed to demons, which are not God- gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear.


In Context

14 with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.

15 Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, he became heavy and sleek. He abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior.

16 They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.

17 They sacrificed to demons, which are not God- gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear.

18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 The Lord saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 32:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:17They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

32:17They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

32:17They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To new gods that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:17They sacrificed unto demons who are not +God; To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

32:17They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods whom they knew not, To new gods that came up of late, Whom your fathers dreaded not.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:17They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods which they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:17They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, to gods that they didn't know, to new [gods] that came up of late, which your fathers didn't dread.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

32:17They sacrifice to demons — no god! Gods they have not known — New ones — from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:17They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.