Ezekiel 20:25

Statutes that were not good] The reference (as Ezekiel 20:26 shows) is to the practice of child sacrifice, which might seem to be justified by such a law as that in Exodus 22:29. The firstborn of men, however, were expressly excepted (Exodus 13:12; Numbers 3:46) and Jeremiah declared that human sacrifice had never been commanded by God (Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:5). God did not impose sinful laws, but some of His laws could be perverted by sinful men and made an excuse for their wrongdoing. Both the ambiguity of the Law and the blindness which led to the misunderstanding of it were the penalty for previous sin.