Leviticus 20:2
2“You are to say to the Israelites, ‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in Israel ▼▼ Heb “or from the sojourner who sojourns”; NAB “an alien residing in Israel.”
who gives any of his children ▼ to Molech ▼ must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones. ▼▼ This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning (see instead סָקַל, saqal), but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (רָגָם, ragam; see HALOT 1187 s.v. רגם qal.a, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 136).
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