20:2 “You are to say to the Israelites, ‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in Israel1 who gives any of his children2 to Molech3 must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones.4
tnHeb “or from the sojourner who sojourns”; NAB “an alien residing in Israel.”
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tnHeb “his seed” (so KJV, ASV); likewise in vv. 3–4.
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tn Regarding Molech and Molech worship see the note on Lev 18:21.
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tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning (see instead סָקַל, saqal), but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (רָגָם, ragam; see HALOT1187s.v.רגם qal.a, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 136).