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Leviticus 20
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20GOD spoke to Moses:H3068H1696H4872H559 2"Tell the Israelites, Each and every Israelite and foreigner in Israel who gives his child to the god Molech must be put to death. The community must kill him by stoning.H559H1121H3478H376H1121H3478H1616H1481H3478H5414H2233H4432H4191H4191H5971H776H7275H68 3I will resolutely reject that man and cut him off from his people. By giving his child to the god Molech he has polluted my Sanctuary and desecrated my holy name.H5414H6440H376H3772H7130H5971H5414H2233H4432H2930H4720H2490H6944H8034 4If the people of the land look the other way as if nothing had happened when that man gives his child to the god Molech and fail to kill him,H5971H776H5956H5956H5869H376H5414H2233H4432H4191H1115 5I will resolutely reject that man and his family, and him and all who join him in prostituting themselves in the rituals of the god Molech I will cut off from their people.H7760H6440H376H4940H3772H2181H310H2181H4432H7130H5971 6"I will resolutely reject persons who dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums, prostituting themselves in their practices. I will cut them off from their people.H5315H6437H413H178H310H3049H2181H310H5414H6440H5315H3772H7130H5971 7"Set yourselves apart for a holy life. Live a holy life, because I am GOD, your God.H6942H6918H3068H430 8Do what I tell you; live the way I tell you. I am the GOD who makes you holy.H8104H2708H6213H3068H6942 9"Any and every person who curses his father or mother must be put to death. By cursing his father or mother he is responsible for his own death.H376H376H7043H1H517H4191H4191H7043H1H517H1818 10"If a man commits adultery with another man's wife—the wife, say, of his neighbor—both the man and the woman, the adulterer and adulteress, must be put to death.H376H5003H376H802H5003H7453H802H5003H5003H4191H4191 11"If a man has sex with his father's wife, he has violated his father. Both the man and woman must be put to death; they are responsible for their own deaths.H376H7901H1H802H1540H1H6172H8147H4191H4191H1818 12"If a man has sex with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. What they have done is perverse. And they are responsible for their own deaths.H376H7901H3618H8147H4191H4191H6213H8397H1818 13"If a man has sex with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is abhorrent. They must be put to death; they are responsible for their own deaths.H376H7901H2145H4904H802H8147H6213H8441H4191H4191H1818 14"If a man marries both a woman and her mother, that's wicked. All three of them must be burned at the stake, purging the wickedness from the community.H376H3947H802H517H2154H8313H784H2154H8432 15"If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death and you must kill the animal.H376H5414H7903H929H4191H4191H2026H929 16"If a woman has sex with an animal, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death. And they are responsible for their deaths.H802H7126H929H7250H2026H802H929H4191H4191H1818 17"If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or mother, and they have sex, that's a disgrace. They must be publicly cut off from their people. He has violated his sister and will be held responsible.H376H3947H269H1H1323H176H517H1323H7200H6172H7200H6172H2617H3772H5869H5971H1121H1540H269H6172H5375H5771 18"If a man sleeps with a woman during her period and has sex with her, he has uncovered her 'fountain' and she has revealed her 'fountain'—both of them must be cut off from their people.H376H7901H802H1739H1540H6172H6168H4726H1540H4726H1818H8147H3772H7130H5971 19"Don't have sex with your aunt on either your mother's or father's side. That violates a close relative. Both of you are held responsible.H1540H6172H517H269H1H269H6168H7607H5375H5771 20"If a man has sex with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will be held responsible and die childless.H376H7901H1733H1540H1730H6172H5375H2399H4191H6185 21"If a man marries his brother's wife, it's a defilement. He has shamed his brother. They will be childless.H376H3947H251H802H5079H1540H251H6172H6185 22"Do what I tell you, all my decrees and laws; live by them so that the land where I'm bringing you won't vomit you out.H8104H2708H4941H6213H776H935H3427H6958 23You simply must not live like the nations I'm driving out before you. They did all these things and I hated every minute of it.H3212H2708H1471H7971H6440H6213H6973 24"I've told you, remember, that you will possess their land that I'm giving to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am GOD, your God, who has distinguished you from the nations.H559H3423H127H5414H3423H776H2100H2461H1706H3068H430H914H5971 25So live like it: Distinguish between ritually clean and unclean animals and birds. Don't pollute yourselves with any animal or bird or crawling thing which I have marked out as unclean for you.H914H2889H929H2931H2931H5775H2889H5315H8262H929H5775H7430H127H914H2930 26Live holy lives before me because I, GOD, am holy. I have distinguished you from the nations to be my very own.H6918H3068H6918H914H5971 27"A man or woman who is a medium or sorcerer among you must be put to death. You must kill them by stoning. They're responsible for their own deaths."H376H802H3588H178H3049H4191H4191H7275H68H1818


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