Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 32:16-18 
Context32:16 They made him jealous with other gods, 1
they enraged him with abhorrent idols. 2
32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods they had not known;
to new gods who had recently come along,
gods your ancestors 3 had not known about.
32:18 You have forgotten 4 the Rock who fathered you,
and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.
1 tc Heb “with strange (things).” The Vulgate actually supplies diis (“gods”).
2 tn Heb “abhorrent (things)” (cf. NRSV). A number of English versions understand this as referring to “idols” (NAB, NIV, NCV, CEV), while NLT supplies “acts.”
3 tn Heb “your fathers.”
4 tc The Hebrew text is corrupt here; the translation follows the suggestion offered in HALOT 1477 s.v. שׁיה. Cf. NASB, NLT “You neglected”; NIV “You deserted”; NRSV “You were unmindful of.”
