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"Thou shalt not give of thy seed to cause to pass through the fire for Moloch." Leviticus 18:10







Moloch, Molech or Molekh, representing Hebrew mlk,
(translated directly into king) is either the name of a god or the name of a particular
kind of sacrifice associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in
North Africa and the Levant.


Moloch was an old Canaanites idol, called by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians
Melkarth, Baal-melech, Malcom, and other such names, and related to
Baal, a sun-god worshipped, like Kronos and Saturn, by the sacrifice
of children. It was represented by a brazen statue, which was hollow and capable of being
heated, and formed with a bull's head, and arms stretched out to receive the children to
be sacrificed. From the time of Ahaz, children were slain at Jerusalem in the valley of
Ben-Hinnom, and then sacrificed by being laid in the heated arms and burned.


The Process of Sacrifice


Molech or Tophet, was made of brass; and they heated him from his lower parts; and his hands being stretched out,
and made hot, they put the child between his hands, and it was burnt; when it vehemently cried out; but the priests
beat a drum, that the father might not hear the voice of his son, and his heart might not be moved.


The idol was hollow and was divided into seven compartments, in one of which they put flour, in the second turtle-doves,
in the third a ewe, in the fourth a ram, in the fifth a calf, in the sixth an ox, and in the seventh a child, which were
all burnt together by heating the statue inside.


From the position of those who worshipped Molech, the sacrifice of one’s first born child, or any child, was the ultimate
sacrifice. It was done only at times of extreme hardship, and not necessarily willingly.


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