Deuteronomy 29:25-26

29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 29:26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. ¹ 

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¹ tn Heb “did not assign to them”; NASB, NRSV “had not allotted to them.”