Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
that thou have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?
New American Standard Bible
You slaughtered
King James Version
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
Holman Bible
You slaughtered My children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire
International Standard Version
you also slaughtered my sons and offered them to idols, incinerating them in fire.
American Standard Version
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?
Amplified
You slaughtered My children and offered them up to [worthless] idols, forcing them to pass through the [hideousness of the] fire.
Bible in Basic English
That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?
Darby Translation
that thou didst slay my children and give them up in passing them over to them?
Julia Smith Translation
And thou wilt slaughter my sons and give them in causing them to pass through for them.
King James 2000
That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you slaughtered my children, and you gave them {to be sacrificed to them}.
Modern King James verseion
You have slaughtered My sons and gave them to cause these to pass through the fire for them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that thou slayest my children, and givest them over to be burnt unto them?
NET Bible
you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.
New Heart English Bible
that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
The Emphasized Bible
Yea thou didst slay my children, - And didst deliver them up. that they should be caused to pass through the fire unto them.
Webster
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
World English Bible
that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?
Youngs Literal Translation
That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 16:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant Grace To Unfaithful And Rebellious Israel
20 Moreover thou have taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou have borne to me, and thou have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter, 21 that thou have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them? 22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou have not remembered the days of thy youth when thou were naked and bare, and were weltering in thy blood.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD to provoke him to anger.
Leviticus 18:21
And thou shall not give any of thy seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shall thou profane the name of thy God. I am LORD.
Leviticus 20:1-5
And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Deuteronomy 18:10
There shall not be found with thee anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, a psychic, he who practices augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
2 Kings 21:6
And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with psychics, and with sorcery. He wrought much evil in the sight of LORD to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 23:10
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
Psalm 106:37
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,
Jeremiah 19:5
and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither did it come into my mind.