“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:”
If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death. The community's failure to enforce the child sacrifice prohibition is itself a sin: closing their eyes is the willful ignorance that enables the violation to continue. The failure of the community to enforce the covenant's most serious prohibitions creates communal guilt. The passive complicity of witness-silence is addressed alongside the active violation of child sacrifice.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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