Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that thou slayest my children, and givest them over to be burnt unto 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.
A Conservative Version
that thou have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?
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.
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 Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom thou hast begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine, thinkest thou, 21 that thou slayest my children, and givest them over to be burnt unto them? 22 And yet in all thy abominations and whoredom, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth:, how naked and bare thou wast at that time, and trodden down in thine own blood.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:17
And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters in fire, and used witchcraft and enchantments, and were sold to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, for to anger him.
Leviticus 18:21
Thou shalt not give of thy seed to offer it unto Moloch, that thou defile not the name of thy God, for I am the LORD.
Leviticus 20:1-5
And the LORD talked with Moses, saying,
Deuteronomy 18:10
Let there not be found among you that maketh his son or his daughter go through fire, either a bruterer or a maker of dismal days, or that useth witchcraft, or a sorcerer,
2 Kings 21:6
And he offered his son in fire, and observed dismal days; and used witchcraft and maintained workers with spirits, and tellers of fortunes - and wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD to anger him.
2 Kings 23:10
And he defiled Tophet also, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, because no man should offer his son or his daughter in fire to Moloch.
Psalm 106:37
Yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Jeremiah 19:5
for they have set up an altar unto Baal, to burn their children for a burnt offering unto Baal, which I neither commanded, nor charged them, neither thought once thereupon.