Leviticus 20:3 meaning and explanation
And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.
Leviticus 20:3, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD is speaking to Moses for the Israelites camped at Sinai, and this verse explains why child sacrifice to Molech was capital. Under this law, the offender's fate was not merely the assembly's death sentence: God says He will personally set His face against that man, an idiom for settled opposition, and cut him off from his people, a term here for total removal from the covenant community, not ordinary exclusion.
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