Leviticus 20

¹ The LORD spoke to Moses:

² “Tell the Israelites: ‘Any man among the Israelites or the foreigners living in Israel who gives one of his children to Molech must surely be put to death. The people of the land must stone him.

³ I will turn against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he gave one of his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

⁴ If the people of the land deliberately look the other way when that man gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

⁵ then I will turn against that man and his family. I will cut him off from among his people, along with all who prostitute themselves by following him and pursuing Molech.

⁶ As for anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists, prostituting themselves by following them, I will turn against that person and cut them off from among their people.

⁷ Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

⁸ Keep my decrees and put them into practice. I am the LORD, who makes you holy.

⁹ Any man who curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood is on his own head.

¹⁰ If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

¹¹ If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must surely be put to death; their blood is on their own heads.

¹² If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them must surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion; their blood is on their own heads.

¹³ If a man lies with another man as he lies with a woman, both of them have done an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is on their own heads.

¹⁴ If a man takes a woman and her mother as wives, it is depravity. He and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.’”

¹⁵ “‘If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

¹⁶ If a woman approaches an animal to mate with it, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is on their own heads.

¹⁷ If a man takes his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he must bear the punishment for his guilt.

¹⁸ If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and exposes her nakedness, he has exposed her source, and she has exposed the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.

¹⁹ Do not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister or your father’s sister, for that would expose your own blood relative. They must bear the punishment for their guilt.

²⁰ If a man lies with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness. They must bear the punishment for their sin; they will die childless.

²¹ If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.

²² Keep all my decrees and all my laws, and put them into practice, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

²³ Do not follow the decrees of the nation I am driving out before you, because they did all these things, and I detested them.

²⁴ That is why I said to you, ‘You will possess their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

²⁵ You must distinguish between clean and unclean animals, and between unclean and clean birds. Do not make yourselves detestable through an animal, a bird, or anything that moves on the ground, which I have set apart for you as unclean.

²⁶ You are to be holy to me, because I, the LORD, am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be mine.

²⁷ Any man or woman who consults the dead or practices divination must surely be put to death. They are to be stoned; their blood is on their own heads.’”

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