Moses (1571 - 1451 bc) which in Coptic means, "saved from the water" was born in
   Goshen, Egypt in 1571 bc he lived to a ripe old age of 120. Moses wrote in large
   part The Pentateuch, the Greek name given the books written by Moses, and
   commonly called "The Five Books of Moses" or "The Law of Moses". These books
   make up the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and
   Deuteronomy). The final work took its present shape after its revision was
   undertaken by Ezra and Nehemiah after the Babylonish captivity. Genesis rest chiefly
   on much earlier documents then the time of Moses (as one might expect), the proof
   was found by scholarly work of the many different names of God used by Moses in
   Genesis (Elohim, Jehovah and ten other names).

   The first book of The Pentateuch, The Law of Moses is Genesis it was written during
   the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness (1491 - 1451 bc). Genesis covers the
   creation  to the death of Joseph (1635 bc). Exodus the second book of The Pentateuch
   gives the history of deliverance and legislative knowledge. Leviticus the third book of The
   Pentateuch, this book begins with the laws concerning sacrifices, about which God gives
   Moses instructions in this chapter, and continues instructions to avoid the doings of the
   Egyptians and the Canaanites. To give instruction of what the Levitical priests and through
   the Levitical priests what the people shall and shall not do. What practices to the other
   gods as Molech they shall not follow,  as they enter the land of Canaan. The instructions
   of prohibited abominations, of which the Canaanites, were guilty, and for which they were
   cast out of the Canaanitish land, to instruct that these practices are not to be done.

   The focus of this work will be on Leviticus chapters 18 and 20, and on Romans chap. 1.
   In Leviticus 18 some ceremonial conduct prohibited are in this chapter, but most of them
   are devoted to property rights, which are relate to the seventh commandment (Thou shalt
   not commit adultery). The first verses (v 6-20) in Leviticus 18 are devoted to the father's
   property rights of women and children, to spell out who is whose property (and is carried
   on through the rest of Leviticus for slaves etc.). They after all just came out of bondage
   and needed to know now who owned whom. Women and children where the property
   of the father or the husband (Deu 22:28-30). Leviticus 18 spells out these property rights,
   that if you have sex with these you have uncovered another man's property. It spells out
   the proper uses and abuse of the seed, (the seed was your sperm or children). If you got
   a woman pregnant and she was not your wife, your seed would be raised as the father's
   or husband's seed not as your seed, you then spilled your seed (Gen 38:8-10, Deu 25:5).
   If you had intercourse with a woman when she was menstruating it would be unclean and
   would be spilling the seed as birth control, same with sodomy with a woman which was
   used as birth control. Leviticus 18 are the crimes against the Laws of Moses, and in
   Leviticus 20 are the punishments assigned to these crimes, if one would not fear God
   enough to not do these crimes then man was to serve punishment for these crimes.
 
    The land of Canaan worshiped the calf faced fire god Molech as did the Syrian and
   Arab tribes. The great fire was the fire in the sky, the sun,  some forms of Molech
   were sun gods, fertility gods, and Molech was part of the calf worship gods. These were
   called in the bible the golden calf, or molten calf (Exo 32:8, 2 Kings 10:28-29).  Molech
   was identified with many other gods in many forms. Milcom the god to the Ammonites,
   Chemosh the god of the Moabites, Baal to the Phoenicians and Canaanitish nations, Baal
   was also identified with Jupiter. The Moabitish Chemosh was also identified with Baal-peor,
   Baal-zebub, Baal-zephon, Mars and Saturn. Both Chemosh and Baal had as their partner
   Ashtoreth who was also identified with, Ishtar, Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus. Generally
   latter on all the gods in the Canaanite area were identified as Baal. The worship connected
   with these gods were licentious rites and possibly involved human sacrifices, there was a
   lot of mixing of the rites between these various alined religions. The practice of sacred
   prostitution was associated with the worship of these gods and the cult was vehemently
   denounced by the prophets, especially Hosea and Jeremiah as idolatry, whoring after
   these gods, to commit whoredom with these gods.  The male idolatrous priests who were
   the representatives of Molech (Moloch) and the other forms of Molech were generically
   called Chemarim (Chem-a-rim, kemarim) priests.

   Matthew Henry Commentary Zephaniah 1:1-6
   He put down the idolatrous priests: the word is the Chemarim. The word signifies
   black men, some think because they wore black clothes, affecting to appear grave,
   others because their faces were black with attending the altars, or the fires in which
   they burnt their children to Moloch. They seem to have been immediate attendants
   upon the service of Baal.

   Matthew Henry Commentary
   Ezekiel 16:15-34
   They built temples in honour of their idols, that others might be invited to resort thither
   and join with them in the worship of their idols: "After all thy wickedness of this kind
   committed in private, for which, woe, woe, unto thee", "thou hast at length arrived at
   such a pitch of impudence as to proclaim it; thou hast long had a whore's heart, but
   now thou hast come to have a whore's forehead, and canst not blush," v. 23-35.
   Thou hast built there an eminent place, a brothel-house, and such their idol temples
   were. Thou hast made for thyself a high place, for one idol or other, in every street,
   and at every head of the way; and again v. 31. They did all they could to seduce and
   debauch others, and to spread the contagion, by making the temptations to idolatry as
   strong as possibly they could; and hereby the ringleaders in idolatry did but make
   themselves vile, and even those that had courted them to it, finding themselves
   outdone by them, began to be surfeited with the abundance and violence of their
   idolatries: Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, even by those that had admired it.
 
   Adam Clarke's Commentary Ezekiel 16:24.
   Thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place a stew or brothel, a bordel house.
   "Thou hast builded thy stewes and bordell houses in every place."- Coverdale's Bible,
   1636. Bordel is an Italian word: how it got so early into our language I know not. Our
   modern word brothel is a corruption of it. Diodati translates, Tu hai edificato un bordello,
   "Thou hast built a brothel." Houses of this kind were of a very ancient date.

   From these scholarly works we see that the worship of Molech and these other gods
   involved licentious rites and the practice of sacred prostitution was associated with their
   worship. The profits from the practice of sacred prostitution helped continue the
   funding of the worship of Molech.    Since these gods were also fertility gods, the
   worshipers were incouraged to have sex of every kind to entice their gods to have
   sex themselves to cause crops to grow, livestock to reproduce, and to ensure fertility
   of people.  The male worshippers needed to have sex with temple prostitutes
   (sympathetic magic) and even animals to entice the gods to have sex.  This made this
   worship pretty popular with the men, even if during this early period when many of
   the licentious rites were with male Chemarim priests often dressed like women
   (Job 31:31, 1 Cor 6:9-20). Sexual rites were supposed to ensure fertility of people,
   animals, lands, and the association to the bull, implied strength and virility.  Moses
   was warned by God in Leviticus 18:3  "After the doings of the land of Egypt,
   wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither
   I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances."  This was a
   warning to not do as those in Canaan where you are about to enter, this land worshiped
   Molech, and give there seed to Molech, both possibly by human sacrifices of their
   children and definitely by giving their seed to Molech. Moses was warned this is idolatry,
   a mortal sin (Lev 18:21-24, Lev 20:2-5).

   Molech is first introduced in the Bible in Leviticus 18:21 " And thou shalt not let any of
   thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy
   God: I am the LORD". As said before, the seed was your semen or your children.
   Leviticus 18 are the laws of Moses on ownership and idolatry, the uses and abuse
   of your seed, in Leviticus 20 the punishments are assigned to these crimes. We see
   in Leviticus 20 the punishment of this crime of idolatry is given in Leviticus 20:2-5,
   2  Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of
   Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech;
   he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
   3  And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people;
   because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane
   my holy name. 4  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: 5  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.

   I will set my face against that man, ... that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom
   with Molech.  The worship connected with Molech were licentious rites and possibly
   involved human sacrifices. The practice of sacred prostitution was associated with this
   worship.  The idolatrous priests who were the representatives of Molech were generically
   called Chemarim priests, only males were allowed to be priests. The word for Sodomite
   in Hebrew is qadesh, which means a male temple prostitute in Strong's Bible dictionary.

   Adam Clarke's Commentary 1 King 15:12
   "12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his
   fathers had made."
   Verse 12. The sodomites]  literally, the holy or consecrated ones.

   Adam Clarke's Commentary Deuteronomy 23:17-18
   "17  There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
   18  Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the
   LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God."
   Verse 17. There shall be no whore] See on Gen. 38:15- 21.
   Verse 18. The hire of a whore, or the price of a dog] Many public prostitutes dedicated
   to their gods as part of their impure earnings; and some of these prostitutes were publicly
   kept in the temple of Venus Melytta, whose gains were applied to the support of her
   abominable worship.

   Giving the seed to Molech took several forms the giving of the seed by passing your
   children through fire (which likely was passing your children between two fires to
   consecrate the devotion of your children to Molech like a hot baptism), giving the seed
   to Molech through temple whoredom with male Chemarim priests, and because Molech
   was a calf faced god men would give the seed (semen) to Molech with animals, most
   often calves (Hosea 13:2). The women would receive the seed of Molech to raise them
   for Molech by lying with animals a form of  fertility rite, and would stand before animals
   to pledge their children to be raised to Molech if they were pregnant, to insure their health.
   Now let's see the verses in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20 in connection to the "giving of
   the seed to Molech"

   Lev 20:
   2  Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever
   he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that
   sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech;
   he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall
   stone him with stones.
...
   5  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.

   Adam Clarke's Commentary Ezekiel 16:24.
   Thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place a stew or brothel

   Leviticus 18:
   21  And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the
   fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy
   God: I am the LORD. (perform no idolatry to Molech)
   22  Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it
   is abomination.(give no seed to male Chemarim priests to Molech)
   23  Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
   therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie
   down thereto: it is confusion.(give no seed to beasts to Molech)
   24  Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in
   all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
   (Give no seed to Molech it does not build the nation it defiles
   the nation, it is idolatry an abomination.)

   Lev 20:
   3  And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him
   off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed
   unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
 
 

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Reference

Deu 22:
28  If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her,
and lie with her, and they be found;
29  Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of
silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her
away all his days.
30  A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
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Gen 38:
8  And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise
up seed to thy brother.
9  And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went
in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed
to his brother.
10  And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.

Deu 25:
5  If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the
dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her,
and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
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Exo 32:
8  They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have
made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and
said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

2 Kings 10:
28  Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
29  Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu
departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that
were in Dan.
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Job 31:
31  If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

1 Cor 6:
9  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers
of themselves with mankind,
10  Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall
inherit the kingdom of God.
11  And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12  All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful
for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and
them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14  And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the
members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16  What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith
he, shall be one flesh.
17  But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
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Hosea 13:
2  And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver,
and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they
say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
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