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20 [a](A)The sons and daughters you bore for me you took and offered as sacrifices for them to devour! Was it not enough that you had become a prostitute? 21 (B)You slaughtered and immolated my children to them, making them pass through fire.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:20–21 Also a reference to the practice of child sacrifice introduced under Judah’s impious kings; cf. 2 Kgs 16:3; 17:17; Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35.

20 “‘And you took your sons and daughters(A) whom you bore to me(B) and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?(C) 21 You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.(D)

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