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He ordered them not to offer burnt offerings, grain offerings, or wine offerings in the Temple, and commanded them to treat Sabbaths and festivals as ordinary work days.
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They were even ordered to defile the Temple and the holy things in it.
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They were commanded to build pagan altars, temples, and shrines, and to sacrifice pigs and other unclean animals there.
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They were forbidden to circumcise their sons and were required to make themselves ritually unclean in every way they could,
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so that they would forget the Law which the Lord had given through Moses and would disobey all its commands.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.