FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – Q’DOSHYM:

And YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, Say to the children of Yisra’el, Any man of the children of Yisra’el, or of the strangers who sojourn in Yisra’el, who gives any of his offspring to Molek, shall certainly be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

And I, I shall set My face against that man, and shall cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molek, so as to defile My set-apart place and to profane My set-apart Name.

And if the people of the land at all hide their eyes from the man, as he gives any of his offspring to Molek, and they do not kill him, then I shall set My face against that man and against his clan, and shall cut him off – and all who go whoring after him, even go whoring after Molek – from the midst of their people.

And the being who turns to mediums, and to spiritists, to go whoring after them, I shall set My face against that being and cut him off from the midst of his people.

And you shall set yourselves apart, and shall be set-apart, for I am YHWH your Elohim, and you shall guard My laws and do them.

I am YHWH, who sets you apart.

For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death – he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is on him.