Leviticus 20:5
New International Version
I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.

New Living Translation
I myself will turn against them and their families and will cut them off from the community. This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution by worshiping Molech.

English Standard Version
then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.

Berean Standard Bible
then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

King James Bible
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

New King James Version
then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.

New American Standard Bible
then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the prostitute with him, by playing the prostitute with Molech.

NASB 1995
then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the harlot after him, by playing the harlot after Molech.

NASB 1977
then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the harlot after him, by playing the harlot after Molech.

Legacy Standard Bible
then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the harlot after him, in playing the harlot after Molech.

Amplified Bible
then I shall set My face against that man and against his [extended] family, and I will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in playing the prostitute (commit apostasy) with Molech.

Christian Standard Bible
then I will turn against that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
then I will turn against that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.”

American Standard Version
then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I shall work my wrath in that man and in his family and I shall destroy him and everyone who strayed after him, because he strayed after an estranged woman from within their people.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
then will I set my face against that man and his family, and I will destroy him, and all who have been of one mind with him, so that he should go a whoring to the princes, from their people.

Contemporary English Version
but not me. If any of you worship Molech, I will turn against you and your entire family, and I will no longer let you belong to my people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will cut off both him and all that consented with him, to commit fornication with Moloch, out of the midst of their people.

English Revised Version
then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will condemn them and their families. I will exclude them from the people. I will exclude from the people everyone who chases after Molech as if he were a prostitute.

Good News Translation
I myself will turn against you and your whole family and against all who join you in being unfaithful to me and worshiping Molech. I will no longer consider any of you my people.

International Standard Version
then I'll oppose that man and his family and eliminate him from contact with his people, along with all the prostitutes who accompany him and who have committed prostitution with Molech."

JPS Tanakh 1917
then I will set My face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, to go astray after Molech, from among their people.

Literal Standard Version
then I have set My face against that man and against his family, and have cut him off, and all who are going whoring after him, even going whoring after the Molech, from the midst of their people.

Majority Standard Bible
then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

New American Bible
I myself will turn against that individual and his or her family, and I will cut off from their people both the wrongdoer and all who follow this person by prostituting themselves with Molech.

NET Bible
I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.

New Revised Standard Version
I myself will set my face against them and against their family, and will cut them off from among their people, them and all who follow them in prostituting themselves to Molech.

New Heart English Bible
then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Moloch, from among their people.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, to commit lewdness with Molech from among their people.

World English Bible
then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

Young's Literal Translation
then I have set My face against that man, and against his family, and have cut him off, and all who are going a-whoring after him, even going a-whoring after the Molech, from the midst of their people.

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Context
Punishments for Disobedience
4And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech, 5then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech. 6Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.…

Cross References
Leviticus 20:4
And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,

Leviticus 20:6
Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.

2 Chronicles 21:11
Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.

Jeremiah 44:11
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.


Treasury of Scripture

Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit prostitution with Molech, from among their people.

I will

Leviticus 17:10
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

against his

Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Jeremiah 32:28-35,39
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: …

whoring

Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

Psalm 106:39
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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Leviticus 20
1. Of him who gives his seed to Moloch
4. Of him who favors such an one
6. Of going to wizards
7. Of sanctification
9. Of him who curses his parents
11. Of incest
13. Of sodomy
15. Of bestiality
18. Of uncleanness
22. Obedience is required with holiness
27. Wizards must be put to death














(5) Then I will set my face.--In that case God himself will show His anger. (See Leviticus 20:3, and Leviticus 17:10.) He will interpose to execute just judgment.

And against his family.--Because they would naturally be privy to it, and aid and abet the father in this crime, they, as well as all those who joined in this idolatrous worship, will be cut off by God himself.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
then I
אֲנִ֧י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

will set
וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י (wə·śam·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

My face
פָּנַ֛י (pā·nay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6440: The face

against that
הַה֖וּא (ha·hū)
Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

man
בָּאִ֥ישׁ (bā·’îš)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

and his family
וּבְמִשְׁפַּחְתּ֑וֹ (ū·ḇə·miš·paḥ·tōw)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

and cut off
וְהִכְרַתִּ֨י (wə·hiḵ·rat·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

from
מִקֶּ֥רֶב (miq·qe·reḇ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7130: The nearest part, the center

their people
עַמָּֽם׃ (‘am·mām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

both him and all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

who follow
אַחֲרָ֗יו (’a·ḥă·rāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

him in prostituting
הַזֹּנִ֣ים (haz·zō·nîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

themselves with
אַחֲרֵ֥י (’a·ḥă·rê)
Preposition
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

Molech.
הַמֹּ֖לֶךְ (ham·mō·leḵ)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4432: Molech -- a heathen god to whom Israelites sacrificed children


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