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Molech

8 verses

Verses Mentioning Molech

  1. "'You are not to let any of your children be sacrificed to Molekh, thereby profaning the name of your God; I am ADONAI.

  2. "Say to the people of Isra'el, 'If someone from the people of Isra'el or one of the foreigners living in Isra'el sacrifices one of his children to Molekh, he must be put to death; the people of the land are to stone him to death.

  3. I too will set myself against him and cut him off from his people, because he has sacrificed his child to Molekh, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

  4. If the people of the land look the other way when that man sacrifices his child to Molekh and fail to put him to death,

  5. then I will set myself against him, his family and everyone who follows him to go fornicating after Molekh, and cut them off from their people.

  6. Shlomo built a high place for K'mosh the abomination of Mo'av on the hill on front of Yerushalayim, and another for Molekh the abomination of the people of 'Amon.

  7. He desecrated the Tofet fire pit in the Ben-Hinnom Valley, so that no one could cause his son or daughter to pass through fire [as a sacrifice] to Molekh.

  8. and they built the high places for Ba'al which are in the Ben-Hinnom Valley, to burn alive their sons and daughters to Molekh - something I did not order them to do, it never even entered my mind that they would do such an abominable thing - and thus they caused Y'hudah to sin.'