31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates.(A) They even burn their sons(B) and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.(C)

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31 Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

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31 (A)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; for every [a]abomination to the Lord which He hates they have done to their gods; for (B)they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

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  1. Deuteronomy 12:31 detestable action

10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire,(A) who practices divination(B) or sorcery,(C) interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,(D) 11 or casts spells,(E) or who is a medium or spiritist(F) or who consults the dead. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.(G)

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10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

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10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter (A)pass[a] through the fire, (B)or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 (C)or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or (D)one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are [b]an abomination to the Lord, and (E)because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.

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  1. Deuteronomy 18:10 Be burned as an offering to an idol
  2. Deuteronomy 18:12 detestable

He followed the ways of the kings of Israel(A) and even sacrificed his son(B) in the fire, engaging in the detestable(C) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed (A)he made his son pass through the fire, according to the (B)abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel.

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21 You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.(A)

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21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

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21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the (A)fire?

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