Leviticus 18:21
You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.
Note Hebrew to make them pass through (the fire)
And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
Note Molech: Gr. Moloch
“‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.
Note Lord or God in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.
And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to make them pass through the fire to Molech; neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- pass through
- Molech signifies a king, or governor, of similar import with Baâl, lord, or governor; and it is generally supposed that the sun was worshipped under this name; and more particularly as the fire appears to have been so much employed in his worship. It seems clear that children were not only consecrated to him by passing through the fire, which appears to be alluded to here, but that they were actually made a burnt offering to him. (See the parallel passages.) That the several abominations afterwards mentioned were actually practised by many heathen nations is abundantly attested by their own writers.
- Leviticus 20:2; Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 18:10; 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Kings 23:10; Psalm 106:37, 38; Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:5; Ezekiel 20:31; Ezekiel 23:37
- to Molech
- 1 Kings 11:7, 33; Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43
- profane
- Leviticus 19:12; Leviticus 20:2–5; Leviticus 21:6; Leviticus 22:2, 32; Ezekiel 36:20–23; Malachi 1:12; Romans 1:23; Romans 2:24