There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
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Gill's Exposition
There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,.... To Moloch, which was a sort of lustration by fire, two fires being made, and the child led…
Barnes' Notes
To pass through the fire - i. e., to Moloch; compare the Lev 20:2 note. That useth divination - Compare Num 23:23 note. Observer of times ... enchanter - Compare Lev 19:26 note. Witch - Rather…
One would not think there had been so much need as it seems there was to arm the people of Israel against the infection of the idolatrous customs of the Canaanites. Was it possible that a people so…
Cambridge Bible
There shall not be found with thee Deu 17:2.
that maketh his son … to pass through the fire See on Deu 12:31: the want of a conjunction following this clause (so also Sam. and LXX except in some…
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