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Penalties for Defiling the Land

20 Then the Lord told Moses to say this to the Israelites:

Any Israelite or any of the aliens who reside in Israel who give any of their children[a] to Molek must certainly be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person to death. I myself will set my face against that person and cut him off from among his people, because when he gave some of his children to Molek, he made my sanctuary unclean and defiled my holy name.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 20:2 Literally seed. This likely refers to the human sacrifice of children, but the term could refer to semen offerings in some contexts.