20 “Furthermore, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to (A)Me and (B)sacrificed them to [a]idols to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial matter?

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  1. Ezekiel 16:20 Lit them

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)

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26 and I pronounced them (A)unclean because of their gifts, in that they (B)made all [a]their firstborn pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might (C)know that I am the Lord.”’

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  1. Ezekiel 20:26 Lit that which opens the womb

26 I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice(A) of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.(B)

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