¹⁸ The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, ^(A)and the women knead dough, to ^(B)make cakes for ^(C)the queen of heaven. And ^(D)they pour out drink offerings to other gods, ^(E)to provoke me to anger.

¹⁹ And the women said,^[a] “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven ^(A)and poured out drink offerings to her, was it ^(B)without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”