31 When you present your gifts and (A)offer up your children in fire,[a] you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And (B)shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? (C)As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

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  1. Ezekiel 20:31 Hebrew and make your children pass through the fire

31 When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children(A) in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will not let you inquire of me.(B)

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20 (A)And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and (B)these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?

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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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