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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues giving Ezekiel his message to the elders of Israel.
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# Then I also gave them statutes that were not good, and decrees by which they could not live
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The words statutes in this phrase do not refer to God's law. God permitted them to live by human laws and judgments that were not good.
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# gave them
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The word "them" refers to the children of those whom Yahweh brought out of Egypt.
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# through their gifts
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Here the word "gifts" refers to the sacrifices that the people made to the idols that they worshiped. AT: "because of their sacrifices" or "because they gave gifts to idols" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# they made a sacrifice of every firstborn of the womb
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The phrase "firstborn of the womb" refers to the firstborn child of a woman. The phrase "made a sacrifice" can be translated with the verb "sacrifice." AT: "they sacrificed every woman's firstborn child" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# caused them to pass through the fire
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It is implicit that they caused their children to pass through the fire in order to offer them as burnt offerings to their idols. AT: "sacrificed them as burnt offerings" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/statute]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/decree]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/clean]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/gift]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/firstborn]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/womb]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/fire]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/know]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]] |