Ezekiel 16:20
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

Young's Literal Translation
And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me, And dost sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms,

King James Bible
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. [Is this] of thy whoredoms a small matter,

Hebrew
You even took
וַתִּקְחִ֞י (wat·tiq·ḥî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

the sons
בָּנַ֤יִךְ (bā·na·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

and daughters
בְּנוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ (bə·nō·w·ṯa·yiḵ)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1323: A daughter

you bore
יָלַ֣דְתְּ (yā·laḏt)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

to Me
לִ֔י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

and sacrificed
וַתִּזְבָּחִ֥ים (wat·tiz·bā·ḥîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2076: To slaughter for sacrifice

them
לָהֶ֖ם (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

as food to idols.
לֶאֱכ֑וֹל (le·’ĕ·ḵō·wl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat

Was your prostitution
מִתַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃ (mit·taz·nū·ṯā·yiḵ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 8457: Harlotry, idolatry

not enough?
הַמְעַ֖ט (ham·‘aṭ)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 4592: A little, fewness, a few

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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