¹⁷ Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

³¹ For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

¹³ who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.