Discovery BoxLeviticus 18:21 
Context18:21 You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, 1 so that you do not profane 2 the name of your God. I am the Lord!
Leviticus 19:12
Context19:12 You must not swear falsely 3 in my name, so that you do not profane 4 the name of your God. I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:29
Context19:29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, 5 so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness. 6
Leviticus 22:32
Context22:32 You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,
1 tn Heb “And from your seed you shall not give to cause to pass over to Molech.” Smr (cf. also the LXX) has “to cause to serve” rather than “to cause to pass over.” For detailed remarks on Molech and Molech worship see N. H. Snaith, Leviticus and Numbers (NCBC), 87-88; P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 259-60; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 333-37, and the literature cited there. It could refer to either human sacrifice or a devotion of children to some sort of service of Molech, perhaps of a sexual sort (cf. Lev 20:2-5; 2 Kgs 23:10, etc.). The inclusion of this prohibition against Molech worship here may be due to some sexual connection of this kind, or perhaps simply to the lexical link between זֶרַע (zera’) meaning “seed, semen” in v. 20 but “offspring” in v. 21.
2 tn Heb “and you shall not profane.” Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.
3 tn Heb “And you shall not swear to the falsehood.”
4 tn Heb “and you shall not profane”; NAB “thus profaning.”
5 tn Heb “to make her practice harlotry.” Some recent English versions regard this as religious or temple prostitution (cf. TEV, CEV).
6 tn Heb “and the land become full of lewdness.” Regarding the term “lewdness,” see the note on Lev 18:17 above.
