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Ezekiel 20:26

And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

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ASV

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 Jehovah.

KJV

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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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וָאֲטַמֵּ֤אva.'a.ta.Me'and I made uncleanH2930 →
אוֹתָם֙'o.Tam<obj.> themH853 →
בְּמַתְּנוֹתָ֔םbe.ma.te.no.Tamby gifts theirH4979 →
בְּהַעֲבִ֖ירbe.ha.'a.Virwhen made pass throughH5674 →
כָּל־kol-everyH3605 →
פֶּ֣טֶרPe.terfirstborn ofH6363 →
רָ֑חַםRa.chama wombH7356 →
לְמַ֣עַןle.Ma.'anso thatH4616 →
אֲשִׁמֵּ֔ם'a.shi.MemI may make appalled themH8074 →
לְמַ֙עַן֙le.Ma.'anso thatH4616 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherthisH834 →
יֵֽדְע֔וּye.de.'Uthey may knowH3045 →
אֲשֶׁ֖ר'a.SherthatH834 →
אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589 →
יְהוָֽה׃ סYah.weh[am] YahwehH3068 →

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Ezekiel 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.Isaiah 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.Leviticus 18:21You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.2 Kings 17:17They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.Ezekiel 16:20–21You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?Ezekiel 20:31When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!Ezekiel 16:20You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?2 Chronicles 33:6He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’Luke 2:23(as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),2 Chronicles 28:3Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.Romans 11:7–10What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,2 Kings 21:6He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.Jeremiah 32:35They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.Exodus 13:12you are to present to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.Psalms 106:37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.Ezekiel 20:25I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.Ezekiel 23:37For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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