²⁰ “You even took your sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them to these images as food.^(A) Wasn’t your prostitution enough? ²¹ You slaughtered My children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire^(B) to the images.

²⁶ When they made every firstborn pass through the fire,^(A) I defiled them through their gifts in order to devastate them so they would know that I am Yahweh.^(B)

³¹ When you offer your gifts, making your children pass through the fire,^(A) you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, house of Israel? As I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I will not be consulted by you!