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Here follow the punishments of the crimes forbidden in the former chapters.
The strangers; not only such as were proselytes, but all others, these being gross immoralities, and such as the precepts of Noah reached to, and such as the laws of nature and nations obliged them to. And therefore the toleration of such actions was not only against reason of state, and the interest of the commonwealth of Israel, and dangerous to the infection and destruction of the Israelites by the imitation of such examples, but also against the light of nature and laws of humanity.
Unto Molech, or to any other idol; for the reason of the law equally concerns all. See Lev_18:21.