LEB - Leviticus - 20

20:1  Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

20:2  “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.

20:3  And I myself will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given ⌞some of⌟ his offspring to Molech, so that ⌞he makes my sanctuary unclean⌟ and profanes ⌞my holy name⌟.

20:4  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,

20:5  then I myself will set my face against that man and against his clan, and I will cut him off and all those from the midst of their people who prostitute after Molech.

20:6  As for the person who turns to the mediums and the soothsayers to prostitute after them, I will set my face against that person, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people.

20:7  “ ‘And you shall consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, because I am Yahweh your God.

20:8  And you shall keep my statutes, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh who consecrates you.

20:9  “ ‘If there is ⌞anyone⌟ who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother—his blood is upon him.

20:10  “ ‘As for a man who commits adultery with a man’s wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the man who commits adultery and the woman who commits adultery shall surely be put to death.

20:11  As for a man who lies with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness; both of them shall be put to death—their blood is on them.

20:12  As for a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed a perversion—their blood is on them.

20:13  “ ‘As for the man who lies with a male as lying with a woman, they have committed a detestable thing; they shall surely be put to death—their blood is on them.

20:14  “ ‘As for a man who marries a woman and her mother, that is depravity; they shall burn him and them, so that it shall not become depravity in the midst of you all.

20:15  “ ‘As for a man who ⌞has sexual relations⌟ with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

20:16  As for a woman who approaches any animal to copulate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death—their blood is on them.

20:17  “ ‘As for a man who takes his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and he sees her nakedness and she herself sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off ⌞before⌟ the eyes of ⌞their people⌟; he has exposed his sister’s nakedness—he must bear his guilt.

20:18  As for a man who lies with a menstruating woman, he exposes her nakedness—her source he exposes and she herself reveals her blood’s source—both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their people.

20:19  And you shall not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister, and you shall not expose your father’s sister, because such a person has dishonored his close relative—they must bear their guilt.

20:20  As for a man who lies with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness—they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

20:21  As for a man who marries his brother’s wife, it is an abomination; he has exposed his brother’s nakedness—they shall be childless.

20:22  “ ‘And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them, so that the land, to which I am bringing you to inhabit it, shall not vomit you out.

20:23  And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out ⌞from before you⌟, because they did all these things, and I detested them.

20:24  So I said to you, “You yourselves shall take possession of their land, and I myself shall give it to you to possess it—a land flowing with milk and honey”; I am Yahweh your God, who ⌞has set you apart⌟ from the nations.

20:25  And you shall distinguish between the clean and the unclean animal and between the unclean and the clean bird; and you shall not defile yourselves with the animal or with the bird or with anything that moves along the ground that I have set apart for you ⌞as unclean⌟.

20:26  And you shall be holy for me, because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have singled you out from the nations to be mine.

20:27  “ ‘And a man or a woman, if a spirit of the dead or a spirit of divination is in them, they shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones—their blood is on them.’ ”