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Leviticus 20
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Penalties for Disobedience

20The LORD told MosesH3068H1696H4872H559 2to say to the people of Israel, "Any of you or any foreigner living among you who gives any children to be used in the worship of the god Molech shall be stoned to death by the whole community.H559H1121H3478H376H1121H3478H1616H1481H3478H5414H2233H4432H4191H4191H5971H776H7275H68 3If any of you give one of your children to Molech and make my sacred Tent unclean and disgrace my holy name, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you my people.H5414H6440H376H3772H7130H5971H5414H2233H4432H2930H4720H2490H6944H8034 4But if the community ignores what you have done and does not put you to death,H5971H776H5956H5956H5869H376H5414H2233H4432H4191H1115 5I myself will turn against you and your whole family and against all who join you in being unfaithful to me and worshiping Molech. I will no longer consider any of you my people.H7760H6440H376H4940H3772H2181H310H2181H4432H7130H5971 6"If any of you go for advice to people who consult the spirits of the dead, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you one of my people.H5315H6437H413H178H310H3049H2181H310H5414H6440H5315H3772H7130H5971 7Keep yourselves holy, because I am the LORD your God.H6942H6918H3068H430 8Obey my laws, because I am the LORD and I make you holy."H8104H2708H6213H3068H6942 9The LORD gave the following regulations. Any of you that curse your father or mother shall be put to death; you are responsible for your own death.H376H376H7043H1H517H4191H4191H7043H1H517H1818 10If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman shall be put to death.H376H5003H376H802H5003H7453H802H5003H5003H4191H4191 11A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father, and both he and the woman shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.H376H7901H1H802H1540H1H6172H8147H4191H4191H1818 12If a man has intercourse with his daughter-in-law, they shall both be put to death. They have committed incest and are responsible for their own death.H376H7901H3618H8147H4191H4191H6213H8397H1818 13If a man has sexual relations with another man, they have done a disgusting thing, and both shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.H376H7901H2145H4904H802H8147H6213H8441H4191H4191H1818 14If a man marries a woman and her mother, all three shall be burned to death because of the disgraceful thing they have done; such a thing must not be permitted among you.H376H3947H802H517H2154H8313H784H2154H8432 15If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he and the animal shall be put to death.H376H5414H7903H929H4191H4191H2026H929 16If a woman tries to have sexual relations with an animal, she and the animal shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.H802H7126H929H7250H2026H802H929H4191H4191H1818 17If a man marries his sister or half sister, they shall be publicly disgraced and driven out of the community. He has had intercourse with his sister and must suffer the consequences.H376H3947H269H1H1323H176H517H1323H7200H6172H7200H6172H2617H3772H5869H5971H1121H1540H269H6172H5375H5771 18If a man has intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, both of them are to be driven out of the community, because they have broken the regulations about ritual uncleanness.H376H7901H802H1739H1540H6172H6168H4726H1540H4726H1818H8147H3772H7130H5971 19If a man has intercourse with his aunt, both of them must suffer the consequences for incest.H1540H6172H517H269H1H269H6168H7607H5375H5771 20If a man has intercourse with his uncle's wife, he disgraces his uncle, and he and the woman will pay the penalty; neither one will have children.H376H7901H1733H1540H1730H6172H5375H2399H4191H6185 21If a man takes his brother's wife, they will die childless. He has done a ritually unclean thing and has disgraced his brother.H376H3947H251H802H5079H1540H251H6172H6185 22The LORD said, "Keep all my laws and commands, so that you will not be rejected by the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you.H8104H2708H4941H6213H776H935H3427H6958 23Do not adopt the customs of the people who live there; I am driving out those pagans so that you can enter the land. They have disgusted me with all their evil practices.H3212H2708H1471H7971H6440H6213H6973 24But I have promised you this rich and fertile land as your possession, and I will give it to you. I am the LORD your God, and I have set you apart from the other nations.H559H3423H127H5414H3423H776H2100H2461H1706H3068H430H914H5971 25So then, you must make a clear distinction between animals and birds that are ritually clean and those that are not. Do not eat unclean animals or birds. I have declared them unclean, and eating them would make you unclean.H914H2889H929H2931H2931H5775H2889H5315H8262H929H5775H7430H127H914H2930 26You shall be holy and belong only to me, because I am the LORD and I am holy. I have set you apart from the other nations so that you would belong to me alone.H6918H3068H6918H914H5971 27"Any man or woman who consults the spirits of the dead shall be stoned to death; any of you that do this are responsible for your own death."H376H802H3588H178H3049H4191H4191H7275H68H1818


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