Ezekiel 20:26

Ezekiel 20:26 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

26I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.’

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New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020)

26and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they made all 20:26 Lit that which opens the wombtheir firstborn pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the Lord.” ’

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New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)

26and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the Lord.” ’

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Amplified Bible (AMP)

26and I pronounced them unclean because of their offerings [to their idols], in that they made all their firstborn pass through the fire [as pagan sacrifices], so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.” ’ [Lev 20:2-5]

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

26And 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.
Israel’s Rebellion in the Land

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New International Reader’s Version (NIrV)

26I let them become ‘unclean’ by offering sacrifices to other gods. They even sacrificed the first male child born in each family. I wanted to fill them with horror. Then they would know that I am the Lord.” ’

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