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30 “For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes,” declares the Lord. “They have put their detestable idols[a] in the house that is called by my name in order to defile it. 31 They have built high places at Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire. I didn’t command this, and it never entered my mind!

32 “Therefore, the time is near,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. They’ll bury in Topheth because there is no other[b] place to do it.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:30 Lit. their detestable things
  2. Jeremiah 7:32 The Heb. lacks other
  3. Jeremiah 7:32 The Heb. lacks to do it