Leviticus 20
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Thou shalt also say to the children
of Israel, If there shall be any of the children of
Israel, or of those who have become proselytes in Israel, who shall give of
his seed to Moloch, let him be surely put to death; the nation upon the land
shall stone him with stones. 3 And I
will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from his people,
because he has given of his seed to Moloch, to defile my sanctuary, and
profane the name of them that are consecrated to me.
4 And if the natives of the land
should in anywise overlook that man in giving of his seed to Moloch, so as not
to put him to death; 5 then will I set
my face against that man and his family, and I will destroy him, and all who
have been of one mind with him, so that he should go a whoring to the princes,
from their people.
6 And the soul that shall follow those
who have in them divining spirits, or enchanters, so as to go a whoring after
them; I will set my face against that soul, and will destroy it from among its
people. 7 And ye shall be holy, for I
the Lord your God am holy.
8 And ye shall observe my ordinances,
and do them: I am the Lord that sanctifies you.
9 Every man who shall speak evil of
his father or of his mother, let him die the death; has he spoken evil of his
father or his mother? he shall be guilty.
10 Whatever man shall commit adultery
with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his
neighbour, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.
11 And if any one should lie with his
father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness: let them both die the
death, they are guilty. 12 And if any
one should lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be put to death; for
they have wrought impiety, they are guilty.
13 And whoever shall lie with a male
as with a woman, they have both wrought abomination; let them die the death,
they are guilty. 14 Whosoever shall
take a woman and her mother, it is iniquity: they shall burn him and them with
fire; so there shall not be iniquity among you.
15 And whosoever shall lie with a
beast, let him die the death; and ye shall kill the beast.
16 And whatever woman shall approach
any beast, so as to have connexion with it, ye shall kill the woman and the
beast: let them die the death, they are guilty.
17 Whosoever shall take his sister by
his father or by his mother, and shall see her nakedness, and she see his
nakedness, it is a reproach: they shall be destroyed before the children of
their family; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, they shall bear their
sin. 18 And whatever man shall lie
with a woman that is set apart for a flux, and shall
uncover her nakedness, he has uncovered her fountain, and she has uncovered
the flux of her blood: they shall both be destroyed from among their
generation. 19 And thou shalt not
uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister, or of the sister of thy mother;
for that man has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin: they shall bear
their iniquity. 20 Whosoever shall
lie with his near kinswoman, has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin to
him: they shall die childless.
21 Whoever shall take his brother's
wife, it is uncleanness; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall
die childless.
22 And keep ye all my ordinances, and
my judgments; and ye shall do them, and the land shall not be aggrieved with
you, into which I bring you to dwell upon it.
23 And walk ye not in the customs of
the nations which I drive out from before you; for they have done all these
things, and I have abhorred them:
24 and I said to you, Ye shall
inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession,
even a land flowing with milk and honey: I
am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all
people. 25 And ye shall make a
distinction between the clean and the unclean cattle, and between clean and
unclean birds; and ye shall not defile your souls with cattle, or with birds,
or with any creeping things of the earth, which I have separated for you by
reason of uncleanness. 26 And ye
shall be holy to me; because I the Lord your God
am holy, who separated you from all nations, to be
mine.
27 And
as for a man or woman whosoever of them shall have in
them a divining spirit, or be an enchanter, let them both die the death: ye
shall stone them with stones, they are guilty.