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19 the food I had given you, the fine flour, the oil, and the honey with which I fed you, you set before them as a pleasant odor, says the Lord God.(A) 20 [a](B)The sons and daughters you bore for me you took and offered as sacrifices for them to devour! Was it not enough that you had become a prostitute? 21 (C)You slaughtered and immolated my children to them, making them pass through fire.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:20–21 Also a reference to the practice of child sacrifice introduced under Judah’s impious kings; cf. 2 Kgs 16:3; 17:17; Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35.

19 Also the food I provided for you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign Lord.(A)

20 “‘And you took your sons and daughters(B) whom you bore to me(C) and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?(D) 21 You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.(E)

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