Leviticus
20
- The LORD said to Moses,
- "Say to the Israelites: 'Any Israelite
or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must
be put to death. The people of the community are to stone him.
- I will set my face against that man and
I will cut him off from his people; for by giving his children to Molech,
he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.
- If the people of the community close their
eyes when that man gives one of his children to Molech and they fail to put
him to death,
- I will set my face against that man and
his family and will cut off from their people both him and all who follow
him in prostituting themselves to Molech.
- "'I will set my face against the person
who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute himself by following them,
and I will cut him off from his people.
- "'Consecrate yourselves and be holy,
because I am the LORD your God.
- Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the
LORD, who makes you holy.
- "'If anyone curses his father or mother,
he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood
will be on his own head.
- "'If a man commits adultery with another
man's wife -- with the wife of his neighbor -- both the adulterer and the
adulteress must be put to death.
- "'If a man sleeps with his father's
wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman must be put
to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
- "'If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law,
both of them must be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their
blood will be on their own heads.
- "'If a man lies with a man as one lies
with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put
to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
- "'If a man marries both a woman and
her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so
that no wickedness will be among you.
- "'If a man has sexual relations with
an animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal.
- "'If a woman approaches an animal to
have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They must
be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
- "'If a man marries his sister, the
daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations,
it is a disgrace. They must be cut off before the eyes of their people. He
has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.
- "'If a man lies with a woman during
her monthly period and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source
of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them must be cut off from
their people.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a
close relative; both of you would be held responsible.
- "'If a man sleeps with his aunt, he
has dishonored his uncle. They will be held responsible; they will die childless.
- "'If a man marries his brother's wife,
it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.
- "'Keep all my decrees and laws and
follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit
you out.
- You must not live according to the customs
of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these
things, I abhorred them.
- But I said to you, "You will possess
their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk
and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations.
- "'You must therefore make a distinction
between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do
not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the
ground -- those which I have set apart as unclean for you.
- You are to be holy to me because I, the
LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
- "'A man or woman who is a medium or
spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood
will be on their own heads.'"
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