Bible in Basic English
"I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them."
— Ezekiel 20:26, Bible in Basic English
“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.”
Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that I would send them wandering among the nations, driving them out among the countries;
Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.
And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;
I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.
For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.
For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.
Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.