The community refuses child sacrifice

Consequences of Profaning Holiness · Leviticus 20

Story guide: At the elders' gate, adults intervene before a father can approach the inert Molech idol; the child is guided to safety while witnesses and elders begin judgment. Untouched stones indicate the grave penalty without depicting it.

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1And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2And you shall say to the sons of Israel: Any man from the sons of Israel, or from the sojourner who sojourns in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

3I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.

4But if the people of the land deliberately close their eyes to that man when he gives some of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death,

5then I myself will set my face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off him and all who prostitute themselves after him by prostituting themselves after Molech, from among their people.

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