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25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances [a]wherein they should not live; 26 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they [b]caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.

27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 20:25 Or, whereby
  2. Ezekiel 20:26 Or, set apart all. See Ex. 13:12.

25 So I gave(A) them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live;(B) 26 I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice(C) of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.(D)

27 “Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In this also your ancestors(E) blasphemed(F) me by being unfaithful to me:(G)

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