Verse 21

And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Du skal ikke gi noen av dine barn som offer til Molok, og du skal ikke vanære navnet til din Gud. Jeg er Herren.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Du skal ikke la noen av dine barn gå gjennom ilden for Molok. Du skal ikke vanhellige din Guds navn. Jeg er Herren.

• Norsk King James

  Og du skal ikke la noe av ditt avkom gå gjennom ilden for Molek, og du skal ikke vanhellige navnet til din Gud; for jeg er Herren.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Du skal ikke avlevere noen av dine barn som et offer til Molok og vanhellige navnet til din Gud; jeg er Herren.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Du skal ikke gi noen av dine etterkommere til Molek, og du skal ikke vanhellige navnet til din Gud. Jeg er Herren.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Du skal ikke ofre noen av dine barn til Molok. Du skal heller ikke vanhellige din Guds navn. Jeg er Herren.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Du skal ikke la noen av dine etterkommere gå gjennom ilden for Molech, og du skal heller ikke vanhellige navnet til din Gud. Jeg er HERREN.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Du skal ikke ofre noen av dine barn til Molok. Du skal heller ikke vanhellige din Guds navn. Jeg er Herren.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Du skal ikke ofre noen av dine barn til Molek. Du skal ikke vanhellige Guds navn. Jeg er Herren.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Og av din sæd skal du ikke gi noen til å ofres til Molok, du skal ikke vanhellige din Guds navn. Jeg er Herren.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og af din Sæd skal du ikke give til at gaae igjennem (Ilden) for Molech, og du skal ikke vanhellige din Guds Navn; jeg er Herren.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And thou shalt not t any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moch, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Du skal ikke la noe av ditt avkom gå gjennom ilden til Molok. Du skal heller ikke vanhellige Guds navn. Jeg er HERREN.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  «Du skal ikke ofre noen av dine barn til Molech, og du skal ikke vanhellige navnet til din Gud: Jeg er Herren.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Du skal ikke ofre noen av dine barn til Molok, slik at du ikke vanhelliger din Guds navn. Jeg er Herren.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og du skal ikke gi noen av dine barn som et offer til Molok; ikke vanhellige din Guds navn: Jeg er Herren.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og dere skal ikke ofre noen av deres barn gjennom ilden til Molek, og dere skal ikke vanære deres Guds navn: Jeg er Herren.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Thou shalt not geue of thi seed to offer it vnto Moloch, that thou defile not the name of thi God, for I am the Lorde.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thou shalt not geue of thy sede also, to be burnt vnto Moloch, lest thou vnhalowe the name of thy God, for I am the LORDE.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Also thou shalt not giue thy children to offer them vnto Molech, neither shalt thou defile the name of thy God: for I am the Lord.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thou shalt also not geue of thy seede to offer it vnto Moloch, neither shalt thou defile the name of thy God: I am the Lorde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And of thy seed thou dost not give to pass over to the Molech; nor dost thou pollute the name of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.

• 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.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD!

Referenced Verses

• Lev 19:12 : 12 And you shall not swear by my name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
• Lev 20:2-5 : 2 Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech, he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land hide their eyes from the man, when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and do not kill him, 5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
• Lev 21:6 : 6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy.
• Lev 22:2 : 2 Speak unto Aaron and his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane my holy name in those things which they consecrate unto me: I am the LORD.
• Lev 22:32 : 32 Neither shall you profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who sanctifies you,
• Deut 12:31 : 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
• Deut 18:10 : 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
• Mal 1:12 : 12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is defiled; and its produce, even its food, is contemptible.
• Acts 7:43 : 43 Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, images which you made to worship them; and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
• 1 Kgs 11:7 : 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
• 1 Kgs 11:33 : 33 Because they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do what is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
• 2 Kgs 16:3 : 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
• 2 Kgs 23:10 : 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
• Ps 106:37-38 : 37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
• Jer 7:31 : 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it enter into my heart.
• Jer 19:5 : 5 They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, nor did it come into my mind:
• Ezek 20:31 : 31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
• Ezek 23:37 : 37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.
• Ezek 36:20-23 : 20 And when they entered among the nations, wherever they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone out of his land. 21 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, wherever they went. 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations, wherever you went. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
• Amos 5:26 : 26 But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
• Rom 1:23 : 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
• Rom 2:24 : 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.