35 They built the high places of Baal (A)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (B)to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, (C)though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do (D)this abomination, (E)to cause Judah to sin.

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21 You shall not give any of your children to (A)offer them[a] to (B)Molech, and so (C)profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

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  1. Leviticus 18:21 Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]

10 There shall not be found among you anyone (A)who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[a] anyone who (B)practices divination or (C)tells fortunes or interprets omens, or (D)a sorcerer

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  1. Deuteronomy 18:10 Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire

but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. (A)He even burned his son as an offering,[a] (B)according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

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  1. 2 Kings 16:3 Or made his son pass through the fire

17 (A)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (B)divination and (C)omens and (D)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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  1. 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire

(A)And he burned his son as an offering[a] and (B)used fortune-telling and (C)omens and dealt (D)with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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  1. 2 Kings 21:6 Hebrew made his son pass through the fire

10 And he defiled (A)Topheth, which is (B)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (C)that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to (D)Molech.[a]

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  1. 2 Kings 23:10 Hebrew might cause his son or daughter to pass through the fire for Molech

(A)And he burned his sons as an offering (B)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and (C)used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with (D)mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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