However, the book Molech — A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament, by John Day, observes: “There is evidence in classical and Punic [Carthaginian] sources, as well as archaeological evidence, for the existence of human sacrifice... in the Canaanite world, and so there is no reason to doubt the Old Testament allusions [to human sacrifice]. ”
انسان قربانی می‌کردند و از این رو ،‏ دلیلی وجود ندارد که راجع به اشارهٔ عهد عتیق [به قربانی کردن انسان] تردیدی به خود راه دهیم .‏ »