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.Deuteronomy 12:31
31 kYou shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every labominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for mthey even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.Ezekiel 16:20-21
20 nAnd you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and othese you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?Ezekiel 16:36
36Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, pand because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,Ezekiel 16:45
45You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of qyour sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. rYour mother was a Hittite and syour father an Amorite.Ezekiel 20:26
26and I defiled them through ttheir very gifts uin their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it vthat they might know that I am the Lord.Ezekiel 20:31
31When you present your gifts and woffer 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 yshall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? zAs I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you. Ezekiel 23:4
4Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. aaThey became mine, and they abbore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is acSamaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
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