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Leviticus

Penalties for Unholiness

Leviticus 20:1-27
1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2You shall also say to the sons of Israel: Any man among the sons of Israel or among the sojourner who sojourns in Israel who gives any of his seed to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stone. 3I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech, thereby defiling my sanctuary and profaning the name of my holiness. 4If the people of the land conceal their eyes from that man when he gives of his seed to Molech so that they do not put him to death, 5then I will set my face against that man and against his family and will cut him off, together with all who fornicate after him by fornicating after Molech, from among their people. 6As for the person who turns to mediums and spiritists to fornicate after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. 7You shall consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. 8You shall keep my statutes and carry them out; I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 9If anyone 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. 10If a man commits adultery with the wife of another man, that is, if he commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 12If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion; their blood is upon them. 13If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 14If a man takes a woman and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, so that no wickedness remains in your midst. 15If a man gives his copulation to an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. 16If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 17If 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 shame. They shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness and shall bear his iniquity. 18If a man lies with a woman who is sick and uncovers her nakedness, he has uncovered her fountain and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood, both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 19You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that would be uncovering one's own flesh. They shall bear their iniquity. 20If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his aunt's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. 21If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall remain childless. 22You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my judgments and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to dwell will not vomit you out. 23You shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24But I said to you, "You shall 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. 25You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you shall not make yourselves detestable with any animal or bird or anything that creeps on the land that I have set apart for you as unclean. 26You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine. 27A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist among them shall surely be put to death. They shall stone them with stone; their blood shall be upon them.
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