Leviticus 18:21
21You shall not give any of your children to aoffer them ▼▼Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]
to cMolech, and so dprofane the name of your God: I am the Lord. Leviticus 20:2
2“Say to the people of Israel, eAny 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.Deuteronomy 18:10
10There shall not be found among you anyone fwho burns his son or his daughter as an offering, ▼▼Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire
anyone who hpractices divination or itells fortunes or interprets omens, or ja sorcerer Jeremiah 7:31
31And they have built the high places of kTopheth, which is in lthe Valley of the Son of Hinnom, mto burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, nwhich I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.Jeremiah 32:35
35They built the high places of Baal oin the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, pto offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, qthough I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do rthis abomination, sto cause Judah to sin.Ezekiel 20:31
31When you present your gifts and toffer up your children in fire, ▼▼Hebrew and make your children pass through the fire
you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And vshall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? wAs I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you. Ezekiel 23:27
27 xThus I will put an end to your lewdness and yyour whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.Micah 6:7
7 zWill the Lord be pleased with ▼▼Or Will the Lord accept
thousands of rams,with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
abShall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
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