⁸ You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

⁶ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

²⁵ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.

² Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

³⁹ So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:

²⁵ Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

⁴² But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?