29 So I asked them, “What is this high place you are going to?” And it is still called Bamah[a] today.’

30 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Are you defiling yourselves the way your ancestors did,(A) and prostituting yourselves with their abhorrent things? 31 When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your children in the fire,[b](B) you still continue to defile yourselves with all your idols today. So should I let you inquire of me, house of Israel? As I live—this is the declaration of the Lord God—I will not let you inquire of me!

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Footnotes

  1. 20:29 = High Place
  2. 20:31 Lit gifts, making your children pass through the fire

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