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Molech Worship and Spiritism

¹ Then^[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² "And to the Israelites^[b] you shall say, ‘If there is anyone^[c] from the Israelites^[d] or^[e] from the alien who is dwelling in Israel, who gives any of^[f] his offspring to Molech, he must surely be put to death; the people of the land must stone him with stones.^{[g] 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^[h] his offspring to Molech, so that he makes my sanctuary unclean^[i] and profanes^[j] my holy name.^{[k] 4} And if the people of the land ever shut their eyes from^[l] that man at his giving some of^[m] his offspring to Molech, not putting him to death, ⁵ then^[n] 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. ⁶ As for^[o] the person who turns to the mediums and the soothsayers to prostitute after them, I will set^[p] my face against that person, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people.

⁷ "‘And you shall consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, because I am Yahweh your God. ⁸ And you shall keep my statutes, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh who consecrates you.

Family and Sexual Offenses

⁹ "‘If there is anyone^[q] 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.

¹⁰ "‘As for^[r] 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. ¹¹ As for^[s] 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. ¹² As for^[t] 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.

¹³ "‘As for^[u] 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.

¹⁴ "‘As for^[v] 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.

¹⁵ "‘As for^[w] a man who has sexual relations^[x] with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal. ¹⁶ As for^[y] a woman who approaches any animal to copulate with it, you shall kill^[z] the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death—their blood is on them.

¹⁷ "‘As for^[aa] 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^[ab] the eyes of their people;^[ac] he has exposed his sister's nakedness—he must bear his guilt. ¹⁸ As for^[ad] a man who lies with a menstruating woman, he exposes^[ae] 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. 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^[af] has dishonored his close relative—they must bear their guilt. ²⁰ As for^[ag] a man who lies with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness—they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. ²¹ As for^[ah] a man who marries his brother's wife, it is an abomination; he has exposed his brother's nakedness—they shall be childless.

You Shall Be Holy

²² "‘And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them, so that^[ai] the land, to which I am bringing you to inhabit it, shall not vomit you out. ²³ And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out from before you,^[aj] because they did all these things, and I detested them. ²⁴ So^[ak] 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^[al] from the nations. 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^[am] with the bird or^[an] with anything that moves along the ground that I have set apart for you as unclean.^{[ao] 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.

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^[ap]—their blood is on them.'"