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Leviticus 20

1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,2 Moreover, you shall say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.3 I also 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, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.4 And if the people at the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and do not put him to death;5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all those prostituting after him, to prostitute with Molech, from among their people.6 And the soul that turns to the spiritists or the wizards, to prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.8 And you shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.9 For any man that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.

10 And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife-who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife-the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.11 And the man that has sex with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.12 And if a man has sex with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they did something perverted; their blood shall be on them.13 And if a man has sex with a man, both of them have done something disgusting: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.14 And if a man has sex with his wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there will be no wickedness among you.15 And if a man has sex with an animal, he shall surely be put to death: and you shall slay the beast.16 And if a woman has sex with an animal, you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.17 And if a man shall have sex with his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.18 And if a man shall have sex with a menstruating woman; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.19 And you shall not have sex with your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.20 And if a man shall have sex 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 have sex with his brother's wife, it is impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

22 You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell therein, does not vomit you out.23 And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did 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 flowing with milk and honey: I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.25 You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make your souls detestable by beast, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean.26 And you shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.27 And a man or a woman among them, that is a spiritist or a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be on them.

 
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