They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire; they used divination and augury; and they sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
Ezekiel 16:21 - New Revised Standard Version You slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering to them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That you have slain My children and delivered them up, in setting them apart and causing them to pass through the fire for [your idols]? American Standard Version (1901) that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them? Common English Bible You slaughtered my sons and placed them in the fire for them! Catholic Public Domain Version You have immolated my sons, and you have consecrated and delivered my sons to them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire. |
They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire; they used divination and augury; and they sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
He made his son pass through fire; he practiced soothsaying and augury, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, so that no one would make a son or a daughter pass through fire as an offering to Molech.
and he made offerings in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his sons pass through fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
Consecrate to me all the firstborn; whatever is the first to open the womb among the Israelites, of human beings and animals, is mine.
and gone on building the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it enter my mind.
I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord.
You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, or who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,