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 24:11
11and the Israelite woman’s son eblasphemed the fName, and cursed. Then they gbrought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.Leviticus 24:15-16
15And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall hbear his sin. 16Whoever iblasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.Ezekiel 36:20-23
20But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, jthey profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ 21But I had concern kfor my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.I Will Put My Spirit Within You
22“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: lIt is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, mwhich you have profaned among the nations to which you came. 23 nAnd I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. oAnd the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
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