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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.

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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.