16 By this they are known not to be gods. Therefore don’t fear them. (WEB)
Baruch 6:16
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Baruch 6:22–24
22 Bats, swallows, and birds land on their bodies and heads. So do the cats. (WEB) 23 By this you may know that they are no gods. Therefore don’t fear them. (WEB) 24 Notwithstanding the gold with which they are covered to make them beautiful, unless someone wipes off the tarnish, t… (WEB)
Baruch 6:64–66
64 Therefore a man shouldn’t think or say that they are gods, seeing they aren’t able to judge causes or to do good to men. (WEB) 65 Knowing therefore that they are no gods, don’t fear them. (WEB) 66 For they can neither curse nor bless kings. (WEB)
Baruch 6:68–70
68 The beasts are better than they; for they can get under a covert, and help themselves. (WEB) 69 In no way then is it manifest to us that they are gods. Therefore don’t fear them. (WEB) 70 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood o… (WEB)
Baruch 6:55–57
55 For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood overlaid with gold or with silver, their priests will flee away, and escape, but they themselves will be burned apart like beams. (WEB) 56 Moreover they can’t withstand any king or enemies. How could a man then ad… (WEB)
Baruch 6:43–45
43 The women also with cords around them sit in the ways, burning bran for incense; but if any of them, drawn by someone who passes by, lies with him, she reproaches her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself and her cord wasn’t broken. (WEB) 44 Whatever is… (WEB)
Baruch 6:51–53
51 It will be manifest to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them. (WEB) 52 Who then may not know that they are not gods? (WEB) 53 For they can’t set up a king in a land or give rain to men. (WEB)
Baruch 6:28–30
28 And the things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and spend. In like manner, their wives also lay up part of it in salt; but to the poor and to the impotent they give none of it. (WEB) 29 The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifice… (WEB)
Baruch 6:36–38
36 They can save no man from death. They can’t deliver the weak from the mighty. (WEB) 37 They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, or deliver anyone who is in distress. (WEB) 38 They can show no mercy to the widow, or do good to the fatherless. (WEB)
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