21 “You are not to make any of your children pass through the fire to Molech.(A) Do not profane the name(B) of your God; I am Yahweh.

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10 No one among you is to make his son or daughter pass through the fire,[a](A) practice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:10 Either a Canaanite cult practice or child sacrifice

10 He defiled Topheth,(A) which is in the Valley of Hinnom,(B) so that no one could make his son or daughter pass through the fire(C) to Molech.(D)

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43 No, you took up the tent of Moloch[a]
and the star of your god Rephan,[b]
the images that you made to worship.
So I will deport you beyond Babylon!(A)[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:43 Canaanite or Phoenician sky or sun god
  2. Acts 7:43 Perhaps an Assyrian star god—the planet Saturn
  3. Acts 7:43 Am 5:25-27

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