Ezekiel 20:25-27

New Century Version

²⁵ I also allowed them to follow rules that were not good and laws by which they could not live. ²⁶ I let the Israelites make themselves unclean by the gifts they brought to their gods when they sacrificed their first children in the fire. I wanted to terrify them so they would know that I am the Lord.’

²⁷ “So, human, speak to the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Your ancestors spoke against me by being unfaithful to me in another way.