Jeremiah 44:19-21
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
19 And the women said,[a] ‘Indeed we will go on making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her; do you think that we made cakes for her, marked with her image, and poured out libations to her without our husbands being involved?’
20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who were giving him this answer: 21 ‘As for the offerings that you made in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your ancestors, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them? Did it not come into his mind?
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- Jeremiah 44:19 Compare Syr: Heb lacks And the women said
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