Leviticus 20

Punishments for Disobedience: Giving Children to Moloch

(1) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

(2) "Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, 'Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, who gives any of his children to Molech; he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

(3) I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given his children to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

(4) And if the people of the land in any way hide their eyes from the man, when he gives his children to Molech, and they do not kill him,

(5) then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

Punishments for Disobedience: Going to Wizards and Cursing Parents

(6) The person that turns to those that have familiar spirits, and to wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

(7) Sanctify yourselves therefore, and YOU be holy, for I am the LORD YOUR God.

(8) And YOU shall keep my statutes, and do them; I am the LORD who sanctifies YOU.

(9) For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Punishments for Sexual Immorality: Adultry, Incest, Sodomy and Beastiality

(10) The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

(11) And the man that lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

(12) If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed an unnatural act; their blood shall be upon them.

(13) If a man lies with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

(14) And if a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they, so that there is no wickedness among YOU.

(15) If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and YOU shall kill the animal.

(16) And if a woman approachs any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

(17) If a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

Punishments for Sexual Immorality: Uncleanness

(18) And if a man shall lie with a woman having her menstrual period, and shall uncover her nakedness; he has uncovered her flow of blood, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood; and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

(19) You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister; for he who uncovers his near kin, they shall bear their iniquity.

(20) If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

(21) And if a man shall take his his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

Obedience is Required and Wizards must be put to death

(22) YOU shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them, that the land, where I bring YOU to dwell in, does not vomit YOU out.

(23) And YOU shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before YOU; for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

(24) But I have said to YOU, "YOU shall inherit their land, and I will give it to YOU to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey;" I am the LORD YOUR God, who has separated YOU from other people.

(25) YOU shall therefore differentiate between clean animals and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean, and YOU shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from YOU as unclean.

(26) And YOU shall be holy to me; for I the LORD am holy, and have separated YOU from other people, that YOU should be mine.

(27) A man or woman who has a familiar spirit, or who is a wizard, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.' "

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