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Leviticus 20:2

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20:2 “You are to say to the Israelites, ‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in Israel 1  who gives any of his children 2  to Molech 3  must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones. 4 

Leviticus 24:23

Context

24:23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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[20:2]  1 tn Heb “or from the sojourner who sojourns”; NAB “an alien residing in Israel.”

[20:2]  2 tn Heb “his seed” (so KJV, ASV); likewise in vv. 3-4.

[20:2]  3 tn Regarding Molech and Molech worship see the note on Lev 18:21.

[20:2]  4 tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning (see instead סָקַל, saqal), but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (רָגָם, ragam; see HALOT 1187 s.v. רגם qal.a, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 136).



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