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Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be DEVOTED TO DESTRUCTION

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ESV, Ex 20:

19 Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.
מ֥וֹת (mō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

Strong's Hebrew: 4191. מוּת (muth) — 839 Occurrences

20 Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.
יָֽחֳרָ֑ם (yā·ḥo·rām)
Verb - Hofal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2763: To seclude, to devote to religious uses

Strong's Hebrew: 2763. חָרַם (charam) — 52 Occurrences

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges:

utterly destroyed] banned or devoted. The ‘ban’ (ḥérem) was an archaic institution, often alluded to in the OT. A city or nation that was hostile to Jehovah was ‘banned,’ or ‘devoted’ (etymologically, as Arabic shews, separated or set apart1[189]), i.e. given over to Him as a form of offering, human beings being destroyed, with or without the cattle and spoil as well, according to the gravity of the occasion.
Gill explained:

he shall be utterly destroyed; be accursed, anathematized, devoted to destruction.
Deuteronomy 2:

34 And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.
H4191-put-to-death was a generic word for killing. H2763-devoted-to-destruction was a more solemn form of holy killing. It carried a more religious connotation.