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 20:2-3
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. 3 fI 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 gunclean and hto profane my holy name.2 Kings 16:3
3but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. iHe even burned his son as an offering, ▼▼Or made his son pass through the fire
kaccording to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 2 Kings 17:17
17 lAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
and used ndivination and oomens and psold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 2 Chronicles 28:3
3and qhe made offerings in the rValley of the Son of Hinnom and sburned his sons as an offering, ▼▼Hebrew made his sons pass through the fire
according to uthe abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 2 Chronicles 33:6
6 vAnd he burned his sons as an offering win the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and xused fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with ymediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.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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