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 20:2-5
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. 4And 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 iput him to death, 5then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in jwhoring after Molech.2 Kings 17:16-18
16And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ktwo calves; and they lmade an Asherah and mworshiped all the host of heaven and served nBaal. 17 oAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
and used qdivination and romens and ssold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but tthe tribe of Judah only. 2 Kings 21:6
6 uAnd he burned his son as an offering ▼▼Hebrew made his son pass through the fire
and wused fortune-telling and xomens and dealt ywith mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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