Imamat 11:2

11:2 “Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals ¹  that are on the land.

Imamat 17:9

17:9 but does not bring it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to offer it ²  to the Lord – that person will be cut off from his people. ³ 

Imamat 18:21

18:21 You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, ⁴  so that you do not profane ⁵  the name of your God. I am the Lord!

Imamat 22:7

22:7 When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.

[11:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the animal,” but as a collective plural, and so throughout this chapter.

[17:9]  ² tn Heb “to make it,” meaning “to make the sacrifice.”

[17:9]  ³ tn For remarks on the “cut off” penalty see the note on v. 4 above.

[18:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “And from your seed you shall not give to cause to pass over to Molech.” Smr (cf. also the LXX) has “to cause to serve” rather than “to cause to pass over.” For detailed remarks on Molech and Molech worship see N. H. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers (NCBC), 87-88; P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 259-60; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 333-37, and the literature cited there. It could refer to either human sacrifice or a devotion of children to some sort of service of Molech, perhaps of a sexual sort (cf. Lev 20:2-5; 2 Kgs 23:10, etc.). The inclusion of this prohibition against Molech worship here may be due to some sexual connection of this kind, or perhaps simply to the lexical link between זֶרַע (zera’) meaning “seed, semen” in v. 20 but “offspring” in v. 21.

[18:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “and you shall not profane.” Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.