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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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# by their gifts
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Here the word "gifts" refers to the sacrifices that the people made to the idols that they worshiped.
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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 word "sacrifice" can be translated with a verb. AT: "they sacrificed every woman's firstborn child" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# put them into the fire
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It is implicit that they put them into 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]]) |