Leviticus 20
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Penalties for Disobeying God's Laws
1The Lord told Moses 2to say to the community of Israel:
Death by stoning is the penalty for any citizens or foreigners in the country who sacrifice their children to the god Molech. 3They have disgraced both the place where I am worshiped and my holy name, and so I will turn against them and no longer let them belong to my people. 4Some of you may let them get away with human sacrifice, 5but not me. If any of you worship Molech, I will turn against you and your entire family, and I will no longer let you belong to my people.
6I will be your enemy if you go to someone who claims to speak with the dead, and I will destroy you from among my people. 7Dedicate yourselves to me and be holy because I am the Lord your God. 8I have chosen you as my people, and I expect you to obey my laws.
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Ex 21.17; Mt 15.4; Mk 7.10. If you curse your father or mother, you will be put to death, and it will be your own fault.
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Ex 20.14; Lv 18.20; Dt 5.18. If any of you men have sex with another man's wife, both you and the woman will be put to death.
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Lv 18.8; Dt 22.30; 27.14-26. Having sex with one of your father's wives disgraces him. So both you and the woman will be put to death, just as you deserve. 12#Lv 18.15. It isn't natural to have sex with your daughter-in-law, and both of you will be put to death, just as you deserve. 13#Lv 18.22. It's disgusting for men to have sex with one another, and those who do will be put to death, just as they deserve. 14#Lv 18.17; Dt 27.14-26. It isn't natural for a man to marry both a woman and her daughter, and so all three of them will be burned to death. 15-16#Ex 22.19; Lv 18.23; Dt 27.14-26. If any of you have sex with an animal, both you and the animal will be put to death, just as you deserve.
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Lv 18.9; Dt 27.14-26. If you marry one of your sisters, you will be punished, and the two of you will be disgraced by being openly forced out of the community. 18#Lv 18.19. If you have sex with a woman during her monthly period, both you and the woman will be cut off from the people of Israel. 19#Lv 18.12-14. The sisters of your father and mother are your own relatives, and you will be punished for having sex with any of them. 20If you have sex with your uncle's wife, neither you nor she will ever have any children. 21#Lv 18.16. And if you marry your sister-in-law, neither of you will ever have any children.#20.21 And … children: According to Deuteronomy 25.5,6 a man was supposed to marry his brother's widow if his brother had died without having children. Otherwise, such marriages were forbidden (see also Matthew 22.23-33; Mark 12.18-27; Luke 20.27-40).
22Obey my laws and teachings. Or else the land I am giving you will become sick of you and throw you out. 23The nations I am chasing out did these disgusting things, and I hated them for it, so don't follow their example. 24I am the Lord your God, and I have promised you their land that is rich with milk and honey. I have chosen you to be different from other people. 25That's why you must make a difference between animals and birds that I have said are clean and unclean#20.25 clean and unclean: See the note at 11.4-8.—this will keep you from becoming disgusting to me. 26I am the Lord, the holy God. You have been chosen to be my people, and so you must be holy too.
27If you claim to receive messages from the dead, you will be put to death by stoning, just as you deserve.
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Leviticus 20
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1The Lord said to Moses, 2#Lev 18.21. “Say to the people of Israel, Any man of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his children to Molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3I myself will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name. 4And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, 5then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in playing the harlot after Molech.
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Lev 19.31. “If a person turns to mediums and wizards, playing the harlot after them, I will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people. 7#Lev 11.44,45; 19.2; 20.26; 1 Pet 1.16. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the Lord your God. 8Keep my statutes, and do them; I am the Lord who sanctify you. 9#Ex 21.17; Deut 27.16. For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is upon him.
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Ex 20.14; Lev 18.20; Deut 5.18. “If a man commits adultery with the wife of#20.10 Heb repeats if a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death. 11#Lev 18.7,8. The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death, their blood is upon them. 12#Lev 18.15. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed incest, their blood is upon them. 13#Lev 18.22. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them. 14#Lev 18.17; Deut 27.23. If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you. 15#Lev 18.23. If a man lies with a beast, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the beast. 16If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
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Lev 18.9. “If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity. 18#Lev 15.24; 18.19. If a man lies with a woman having her sickness, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 19#Lev 18.12,13. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's near kin; they shall bear their iniquity. 20#Lev 18.14. If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin, they shall die childless. 21#Lev 18.16. If a man takes 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 may not vomit you out. 23And 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. 24But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from the peoples. 25You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. 26#Lev 20.7. You shall be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
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Lev 19.31; 20.6. “A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.”
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