² Tell the Israelites: Anyone, whether an Israelite or an alien residing in Israel, who gives offspring to Molech shall be put to death.^(A) The people of the land shall stone that person. ^3 (B)I myself will turn against and cut off^(C) that individual from among the people; for in the giving of offspring to Molech, my sanctuary was defiled^(D) and my holy name was profaned. ⁴ If the people of the land condone the giving of offspring to Molech, by failing to put the wrongdoer to death, ⁵ I myself will turn against that individual and his or her family, and I will cut off from their people both the wrongdoer and all who follow this person by prostituting themselves with Molech.

^10 (A)Let there not be found among you anyone who causes their son or daughter to pass through the fire,^[a] or practices divination, or is a soothsayer, augur, or sorcerer,

⁷ Solomon then built a high place to Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, and to Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain opposite Jerusalem.

³ He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even immolated his child by fire, in accordance with the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.^(A)