'People of the Land' in the Bible

" 'If {anyone} of the people of the land sins by an unintentional wrong by {violating} one of Yahweh's commands that should not be {violated}, so that he incurs guilt,

(because the people of the land, who [were] {before you}, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),

"And to the {Israelites} you shall say, '[If there is] {anyone} from the {Israelites} or from the alien who is dwelling in Israel, who gives {any of} his offspring to Molech, he must surely be put to death; the people of the land must stone him with stones.

And if the people of the land ever shut their eyes from that man at his giving {some of} his offspring to Molech, not putting him to death,