6 ^x“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or ^ythe wife you embrace¹ or your friend ^zwho is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ ^awhich neither you nor your fathers have known,

4 ^jBecause the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; ^kand because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

3 because of the evil that they committed, ^mprovoking me to anger, ⁿin that they went to make offerings ^oand serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.