²⁶and I pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all ⁴their firstborn to pass ⁿthrough the fire, that I might make them desolate and that they ^omight know that I am the Lord.” ’

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Footnotes

4Lit. that open the womb

Cross references

n 2 Kin. 17:17; 2 Chr. 28:3; Jer. 32:35; Ezek. 16:20
o Ezek. 6:7; 20:12, 20

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When they sacrificed every firstborn in the fire, I defiled them through their gifts in order to devastate them so they would know that I am the Lord.’

NLTNew Living Translation

I let them pollute themselves with the very gifts I had given them, and I allowed them to give their firstborn children as offerings to their gods—so I might devastate them and remind them that I alone am the Lord.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And I defiled them through their gifts in sacrificing all of the first offspring of the womb, in order that I will cause them to be stunned, so that they will know that I am Yahweh.

KJV 1900King James Version

And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they 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 the Lord.

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