21 You shall not give any of your children to (A)offer them[a] to (B)Molech, and so (C)profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 18:21 Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]

“Say to the people of Israel, (A)Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. (B)I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary (C)unclean and (D)to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not (E)put him to death,

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10 And he defiled (A)Topheth, which is (B)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (C)that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to (D)Molech.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:10 Hebrew might cause his son or daughter to pass through the fire for Molech

43 You took up the tent of (A)Moloch
    and the star of your god Rephan,
    the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

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For Solomon went after (A)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after (B)Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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