Leviticus 20:2
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2 “Say to the people of Israel, (A)Any 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.
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Deuteronomy 21:21
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21 (A)Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. (B)So you shall purge the evil from your midst, (C)and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
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Leviticus 24:23
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23 So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and (A)they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.
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Leviticus 24:14
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14 (A)“Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him (B)lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
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Leviticus 20:27
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27 (A)“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be (B)stoned with stones; (C)their blood shall be upon them.”
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Leviticus 18:21
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21 You shall not give any of your children to (A)offer them[a] to (B)Molech, and so (C)profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
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- Leviticus 18:21 Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]
Acts 7:43
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43 You took up the tent of (A)Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
Ezekiel 23:39
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39 For when (A)they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day (B)they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, (C)this is what they did in my house.
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Ezekiel 23:37
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37 For (A)they have committed adultery, (B)and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even (C)offered up[a] to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
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- Ezekiel 23:37 Or have even made pass through the fire
Ezekiel 20:31
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31 When you present your gifts and (A)offer up your children in fire,[a] you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And (B)shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? (C)As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
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- Ezekiel 20:31 Hebrew and make your children pass through the fire
Ezekiel 20:26
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26 and I defiled them through (A)their very gifts (B)in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it (C)that they might know that I am the Lord.
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Ezekiel 16:20-21
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20 (A)And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and (B)these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
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Jeremiah 32:35
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Jeremiah 7:31
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31 And they have built the high places of (A)Topheth, which is in (B)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (C)to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, (D)which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
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Isaiah 57:5-6
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5 you who burn with lust among (A)the oaks,[a]
under every green tree,
(B)who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of (C)the valley is your portion;
they, they, are your lot;
to them you have poured out a drink offering,
you have brought a grain offering.
Shall I relent for these things?
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- Isaiah 57:5 Or among the terebinths
Psalm 106:38
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38 they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was (A)polluted with blood.
2 Chronicles 33:6
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6 (A)And he burned his sons as an offering (B)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and (C)used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with (D)mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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2 Chronicles 28:3
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3 and (A)he made offerings in the (B)Valley of the Son of Hinnom and (C)burned his sons as an offering,[a] according to (D)the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
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- 2 Chronicles 28:3 Hebrew made his sons pass through the fire
2 Kings 23:10
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10 And he defiled (A)Topheth, which is (B)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (C)that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to (D)Molech.[a]
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- 2 Kings 23:10 Hebrew might cause his son or daughter to pass through the fire for Molech
2 Kings 17:17
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17 (A)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (B)divination and (C)omens and (D)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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- 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
Deuteronomy 18:10
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10 There shall not be found among you anyone (A)who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[a] anyone who (B)practices divination or (C)tells fortunes or interprets omens, or (D)a sorcerer
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- Deuteronomy 18:10 Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire
Deuteronomy 17:5-7
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5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you (A)shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. 6 (B)On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. 7 (C)The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So (D)you shall purge[a] the evil[b] from your midst.
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- Deuteronomy 17:7 Septuagint drive out; also verse 12
- Deuteronomy 17:7 Or evil person; also verse 12
Deuteronomy 13:10-11
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10 (A)You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And (B)all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.
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Deuteronomy 12:31
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31 (A)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every (B)abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for (C)they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
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