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Canaanite worship consisted in human sacrifice, preferably  first-born children, as a burnt offering to Ba'al and  consort, Astarte.  This detestable and inhuman pagan custom of slaying and then cremating the victim, also practiced at Tyre in honor of Melcarth, was severely condemned by the Mosaic Law and was made punishable by the death of the guilty party (Lev.18,21; 20, 2-5)