Leviticus 20:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Again. See Leviticus 18:21. This is so serious that it must be repeated. There, only. command; here, the penalty.

children. Hebrew sons.

Molech. The king-idol. See note on Leviticus 18:21, where this law follows that on incest; while here it precedes it.

Leviticus 20:2

2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.