Exodus 22:20
Good News Translation
"Condemn to death anyone who offers sacrifices to any god except to me, the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.

Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for offering sacrifices to any god except me.

New American Bible
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD alone, shall be put under the ban.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.

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Numbers 21:3 And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the Chanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.

Joshua 23:15,16 Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed, what he promised, and all things prosperous have come: so will he bring upon you all the evils he hath threatened, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you, . . .

Context
Laws of Social Responsibility
19Whosoever copulateth with a beast; shall be put to death. 20He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.21Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.…
Cross References
Exodus 32:8
They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 34:15
Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.

Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with whom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.

Numbers 25:2
Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.

Deuteronomy 17:2
When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,

Deuteronomy 17:3
So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:

1 Kings 18:40
And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.

2 Kings 10:25
And it came to pass, when the burnt offering was ended, that Jehu commanded his soldiers and captains, saying: Go in, and kill them: let none escape. And the soldiers and captains slew them with the edge of the sword, and cast them out: and they went into the city of the temple of Baal,

2 Chronicles 15:13
And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let him die, whether little or great, man or woman.

Ezekiel 20:7
And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 22:19
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