Leviticus 18:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ You shall not give any of your children to pass through the fire and sacrifice them to Molech [the fire god], nor shall you profane the name of your God [by giving it to false gods]. I am the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ 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.

Common English Bible

²¹ You must not give any of your children to offer them over to Molech so that you do not defile your God’s name: I am the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ You shall not give some of your seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor to pollute the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:21 Cross References

1 Kings 11:33

because he has forsaken me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

1 Kings 11:7

Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 16:3

but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

2 Kings 17:31

and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

2 Kings 21:6

And he burned his son as an offering, and practiced soothsaying and augury, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 23:10

And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.

2 Chronicles 28:3

and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

Jeremiah 19:5

and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind;

Jeremiah 32:35

They built the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Jeremiah 7:31

And they have built the high place of Topheth, 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 come into my mind.

Ezekiel 20:26

and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:31

When you offer your gifts and sacrifice your sons by fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols 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.

Ezekiel 23:37

For they have committed adultery, and blood is upon their hands; with their idols they have committed adultery; and they have even offered up to them for food the sons whom they had borne to me.

Leviticus 19:12

And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:6

They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings by fire to the Lord, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

Leviticus 22:2

“Tell Aaron and his sons to keep away from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they may not profane my holy name: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 22:32

And you shall not profane my holy name, but I will be hallowed among the people of Israel; I am the Lord who sanctify you,

Leviticus 24:15

And say to the people of Israel, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

Amos 2:7

they that trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same maiden, so that my holy name is profaned;

Amos 5:26

You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves;

Micah 6:7

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”

Malachi 1:12

But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and the food for it may be despised.

Acts 7:43

And you took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.’

Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.

Romans 2:24

For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

Deuteronomy 12:31

You shall not do so to the Lord your God; for every abominable thing which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:10

There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,