Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

and had walked in the statutes of the nations whom Jehovah had cast out before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

for they served idols, of which Jehovah had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

To this day they continue doing according to the former manner; they do not fear Jehovah, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the Law and commandments which Jehovah has commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He had ordained with the name, Israel;

And there you will serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.