Deuteronomio 12:31

31 Tú no adorarás al Señor
tu Dios de la manera que las otras naciones rinden culto a sus dioses, llevando a cabo en honor de ellos toda clase de actos detestables que el Señor
odia. Hasta sacrifican a sus hijos y a sus hijas en el fuego como ofrenda a sus dioses.

Deuteronomio 12:31 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 12:31

Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God
Not serve and worship him after the manner of the Gentiles, nor introduce their rites and customs into his service, used by them in the worship of their gods:

for every abomination which he hateth have they done unto their gods;
as murder, adultery which God has expressed his aversion to, and indignation at; one instance of the former sort is given here:

for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to
their gods;
not only men have they sacrificed to them, but such near relations; and not only caused them to pass through the fire, but burnt them in it; so the Carthaginians are said to do, who learned this inhuman practice from the Phoenicians; they were a colony of the inhabitants of this land of Canaan. Of the Phoenicians Porphyry says {i}, that in great calamities, as war or pestilence, they sacrificed to Saturn some one of those that were dearest to them, appointed by suffrage. The Phoenician history, adds he, is full of such sacrifices, which Sanchoniatho wrote in the Phoenician language; and Curtius says {k}, this custom of sacrificing a fine boy to Saturn was received by the Carthaginians from their founders (the Tyrians and Phoenicians), and which they continued even to the destruction of their city.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 De Abstinentia, l. 2. sect. 56.
F11 Hist. l. 4. c. 3.

Deuteronomio 12:31 In-Context

29 »Cuando el Señor
tu Dios vaya delante de ti y destruya a las naciones, y tú las expulses y te apoderes de su tierra,

30 no caigas en la trampa de seguir sus costumbres ni de rendir culto a sus dioses. No preguntes acerca de sus dioses diciendo: “¿De qué manera rinden culto estas naciones a sus dioses? Yo quiero hacer lo mismo”.

31 Tú no adorarás al Señor
tu Dios de la manera que las otras naciones rinden culto a sus dioses, llevando a cabo en honor de ellos toda clase de actos detestables que el Señor
odia. Hasta sacrifican a sus hijos y a sus hijas en el fuego como ofrenda a sus dioses.

32 »Por lo tanto, asegúrate de obedecer todos los mandatos que te doy. No les agregues ni les quites nada.