Leviticus 18:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

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  • Lev 19:12 : 12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
  • Lev 20:2-5 : 2 Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land; 3 And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common. 4 And if the people of the land do not take note of that man when he gives his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death, 5 Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.
  • Lev 21:6 : 6 Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.
  • Lev 22:2 : 2 Give orders to Aaron and to his sons to keep themselves separate from the holy things of the children of Israel which they give to me, and not to make my holy name common: I am the Lord,
  • Lev 22:32 : 32 And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,
  • Deut 12:31 : 31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • Deut 18:10 : 10 Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,
  • Mal 1:12 : 12 But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
  • Acts 7:43 : 43 And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7 : 7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.
  • 1 Kgs 11:33 : 33 Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.
  • 2 Kgs 16:3 : 3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
  • 2 Kgs 23:10 : 10 And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.
  • Ps 106:37-38 : 37 They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits, 38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
  • Jer 7:31 : 31 And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.
  • Jer 19:5 : 5 And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind:
  • Ezek 20:31 : 31 And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.
  • Ezek 23:37 : 37 For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.
  • Ezek 36:20-23 : 20 And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land. 21 But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went. 22 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went. 23 And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.
  • Amos 5:26 : 26 Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
  • Rom 1:23 : 23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.
  • Rom 2:24 : 24 For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

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  • Lev 20:1-5
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    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

    2 Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land;

    3 And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common.

    4 And if the people of the land do not take note of that man when he gives his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death,

    5 Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.

  • Lev 18:19-20
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    19 And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • Lev 18:22
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    22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

  • Deut 12:31
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    31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 23:10
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    10 And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

  • Exod 34:17
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    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Lev 19:4
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    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 18:29-30
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    29 For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

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  • Deut 18:9-10
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    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

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  • Jer 32:35
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    35 And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.

  • Ezek 16:20-21
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    20 And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

    21 That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?

  • Lev 19:28-31
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    28 You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

    29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

    30 Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

    31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:4
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    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Lev 21:15-16
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    15 And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.

    16 And the Lord said to Moses,

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    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

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    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

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    31 And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.

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    20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

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    12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 16:21-22
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    21 Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

    22 You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.

  • 2 Chr 28:3
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    3 More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • Exod 23:19
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    19 The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Exod 34:15
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    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Ezek 23:37
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    37 For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

  • Ezek 20:26
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    26 I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.

  • Lev 22:32
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    32 And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,

  • Deut 20:18
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    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • Lev 18:6-7
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    6 You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

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  • Lev 17:8
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    8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

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    1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:26
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    26 Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
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    17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • Deut 7:26
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    26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Lev 22:15
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    15 And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord,

  • Deut 18:12
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    12 For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

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    7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord