Leviticus Chapter 20 verse 4 Holy Bible
And if the people at the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and put him not to death;
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And if the people of the land do not take note of that man when he gives his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death,
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And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, that they kill him not,
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And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
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And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed to Molech, and kill him not;
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If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death;
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`And if the people of the land really hide their eyes from that man, in his giving of his seed to the Molech, so as not to put him to death,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 4, 5. - There is to be no connivance with Molech-worship. The penalty is death, and is to be carried out by the proper tribunals, whose business it was to see that the stoning took place. So in Deuteronomy the duty of killing those who entice to idolatry is laid down. "Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shall thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: but thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people" (Deuteronomy 13:8, 9). In the case of Molech-worship God declares that, if the tribunals of the nation fail to adjudge the penalty of death to the offender, he will himself lake the matter into his hands, and cut him off with his family and all that follow him in his sin of unfaithfulness.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) And if the people of the land . . . --In the former verse the Legislator treated of cases where there was insufficient evidence. Here he declares what God would do if the community itself, whose duty it is to execute the sentence, either from culpable indifference or criminal sympathy with the sin, connive at it.
