Deuteronomy 12:31 Cross References - Rotherham

³¹ Thou shalt not do likewise unto Yahweh thy God,––for, everything that is an abomination unto Yahweh, which he doth hate, have they done unto their gods, for, even their sons and their daughters, do they consume with fire unto their gods.

² Thou shalt not follow multitudes to commit wickedness,––neither shalt thou answer in a quarrel, so as to turn away after multitudes to mislead.

³ After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do,––And, after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither, I, am bringing you in, shall ye not do, And, in their statutes, shall ye not walk:

²¹ And, none of thy seed, shalt thou deliver up, to cause to pass through to Molech,––that thou profane not the name of thy God, I, am Yahweh.

²⁶ Ye, therefore, shall observe my statutes and my regulations, and have nothing to do with any of these abominations,––whether the home–born, or the sojourner that sojourneth in your midst; ²⁷ For, all these abominations, have the men of the land done, who were before you; And so the land, hath become unclean: ²⁸ So shall the land not vomit you, through your making it unclean,––as it vomited the nation which was before you. ²⁹ For, whosoever shall have anything to do with any of these abominations, the persons who have, shall be cut off, out of the midst of their people. ³⁰ Therefore shall ye keep my charge, So that ye may have nothing to do with any of the abominable statutes with which they have had to do before you, So shall ye not make yourselves unclean thereby,––I––Yahweh, am your God.

² Unto the sons of Israel, therefore, shalt thou say, What man soever, there may be of the sons of Israel, or of the sojourners that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech, he shall, surely be put to death,––the people of the land, shall stone him with stones;

⁵ Not for thine own righteousness, nor for the uprightness of thine own heart, art thou going in to possess their land,––but, for the lawlessness of these nations, is, Yahweh thy God, driving them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh sware unto thy fathers, unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob.

⁴ Ye must not do thus unto Yahweh your God;

⁹ When thou art coming into the land which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominable doings of those nations. ¹⁰ There shall not be found in thy midst––One who causeth his son or his daughter to pass through fire,––Or who useth divination, hidden arts or enchantments, Or who muttereth incantations;

¹⁵ but rejected his statutes, and his covenant, which he solemnised with their fathers, and his testimonies wherewith he testified against them,––and followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were round about them, as to whom Yahweh charged them, so that they should not do like them. ¹⁶ But they forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made for themselves something molten––two calves, and made a Sacred Stem, and bowed themselves down to all the army of the heavens, and served Baal; ¹⁷ and made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and used divinations and enchantments, and sold themselves to do the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, provoking him to wrath.

² And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,––after the abominable practices of the nations, whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

² And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,–according to the abominable ways of the nations, whom Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

¹⁴ Also, all the rulers of the priests and of the people, abounded in committing treachery, according to all the abominable ways of the nations,––and polluted the house of Yahweh, which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

³¹ And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, To burn up their sons and their daughters, in the fire,––Which I commanded not, Neither came it up on my heart.

³⁵ And have built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of Ben–hinnom, To cause their sons and their daughters to pass through unto Molech, Which I commanded them not, Neither came it up on my heart, That they should do this horrible thing,––Causing, Judah, to sin!

³¹ Yea, when ye lift up your gifts, When ye cause your children to pass through the fire, Ye, are defiling yourselves unto all your manufactured gods, unto this day, And shall, I, be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Surely I will not be enquired of by you.

²⁷ Thus will I cause thy lewdness to cease, from thee, Even thine unchastity [brought] from the land of Egypt,––So that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, And, Egypt, shalt thou not call to mind any more.

⁷ Will Yahweh, be pleased, with thousands of rams? with myriads of torrents of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression? the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?