Ezekiel 16:21
Good News Translation
without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols?

New Revised Standard Version
You slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering to them.

Contemporary English Version
You slaughtered my children, so you could offer them as sacrifices.

New American Bible
You slaughtered and immolated my children to them, making them pass through fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.

my children

Psalm 106:37 And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.

to pass

Leviticus 18:21 Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:1-5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Deuteronomy 18:10 Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard,

2 Kings 17:17 And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divinations, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers, to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.

2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom: that no man should consecrate there his son, or his daughter, through fire, to Moloch.

Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
20And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and hast sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy fornication small? 21Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.22And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.…
Cross References
Exodus 13:2
Sanctify unto me every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.

2 Kings 17:17
And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.

Psalm 106:37
And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.

Jeremiah 19:5
And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn their children with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command, nor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind.

Ezekiel 16:20
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