⁴⁰ But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

²⁸ There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

⁸ Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

¹² And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

³⁴ So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

²³ Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.