Lévitique 20:4

Louis Segond

Si le peuple du pays détourne ses regards de cet homme, qui livre de ses enfants à Moloc, et s'il ne le fait pas mourir,

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et si le peuple du pays ferme les yeux sur cet homme, quand il donnera de ses enfants � Moloc, et ne le fait pas mourir,

Darby's French Translation
Et si le peuple du pays ferme les yeux, en quelque mani�re, sur cet homme, quand il donne de ses enfants � Moloc, pour ne pas le faire mourir,

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Que si le peuple du pays ferme les yeux en quelque mani�re que se soit, pour ne point voir quand cet homme-l� aura donn� de sa post�rit� � Molec, [et] ne le point faire mourir;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hide: Acts 17:30

and kill: Deuteronomy 13:8, Deuteronomy 17:2-5, Joshua 7:12, 1 Samuel 3:13, 1 Samuel 3:14, 1 Kings 20:42, Revelation 2:14

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 22:1 - hide thyself

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man,.... That is, the people of the house of Israel, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; if the friends, relations, and neighbours of such a man, though they know what he is about to do, or has done, yet they shut their eyes wilfully, or look another way; or, however, wink and connive at his wickedness, and will not discover him, and bear witness against him; or if a court of judicature, before whom he comes, does not take the evidence of his crime, nor condemn for it, or are negligent in punishing him as the law directs, a gift having blinded their eyes, or they careless and remiss in their duty:

when he giveth his seed unto Molech; a crime so heinous and abominable:

and kill him not; do not bring witness against him, so as that he may be put to death, or do not upon the evidence given condemn him to death, or do not take care to have sentence executed, by stoning him to death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Molech, literally, “the King”, called also Moloch, Milcom, and Malcham, was known in later times as “the abomination of the Ammonites” 1 Kings 11:5. He appears to have been the fire-god of the eastern nations; related to, and sometimes made identical with, Baal, the sun-god. The nature of the rite and of the impious custom called passing children through the fire to Molech is very doubtful. The practices appear to have been essentially connected with magical arts, probably also with unlawful lusts, and with some particular form of profane swearing. The rite in the time of Moses belonged to the region rather of magic than of definite idolatrous worship, and may have been practiced as a lustral charm, or fire-baptism, for the children of incest and adultery.

Leviticus 20:2

Stone him with stones - The commonest form of capital punishment. It was probably preferred as being the one in which the execution was the act of the whole congregation.

Leviticus 20:3

Defile my sanctuary - i. e. pollute the people as identified with their sanctuary.