Leviticus 20

Punishment for Child Sacrifice

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Say to the people of Israel, o Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 p I 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, to make my sanctuary q unclean and r to profane my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not s put him to death, 5 then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in t whoring after Molech.

6 "If u a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, v I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. 7 w Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. 8 x Keep my statutes and do them; y I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 9 For z anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; a his blood is upon him.

Punishments for Sexual Immorality

10 "If a b man commits adultery with the wife of 1 his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11 c If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 12 d If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed e perversion; their blood is upon them. 13 f If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 14 g If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. 15 h If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. 16 h If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

17 i "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 disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity. 18 j If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period 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 k You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked l one's relative; they shall bear their iniquity. 20 m 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 n If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity. 2 He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

You Shall Be Holy

22 o "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not p vomit you out. 23 q And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. 24 But r I have said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land s flowing with milk and honey.' I am the Lord your God, t who has separated you from the peoples. 25 u You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. 26 v You shall be holy to me, w for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

27 x "A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be y stoned with stones; z their blood shall be upon them."

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:21
    You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
  2. Cross References
    Leviticus 17:10
    If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
  3. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:30
    You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
    Ezekiel 5:11
    Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
    Ezekiel 23:38 - 39
    Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.
  4. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:21
    You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 17:2 - 3
    If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
    Deuteronomy 17:5
    Then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 34:15
    Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice.
  7. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:31
    Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
  8. Cross References
    Leviticus 17:10
    If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
  9. Cross References
    Leviticus 11:44
    For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
  10. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:4
    You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
  11. Cross References
    Leviticus 21:8
    You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread...
    Leviticus 21:15
    That he may not profane his offspring among his...
    Leviticus 21:23
    But he shall not go through the veil or approac...
    Leviticus 22:32
    And you shall not profane my holy name, that I ...
    Exodus 31:13
    You are to speak to the people of Israel and sa...
    Ezekiel 37:28
    Then the nations will know that I am the Lord w...
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 21:17
    Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
  13. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:11 - 12
    If a man lies with his father's wife, he has un...
    Leviticus 20:13
    If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both...
    Leviticus 20:16
    If a woman approaches any animal and lies with ...
    Leviticus 20:27
    "A man or a woman who is a medium or a necroman...
    2 Samuel 1:16
    And David said to him, "Your blood be on your h...
    1 Kings 2:32 - 33
    The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on hi...
    1 Kings 2:37
    For on the day you go out and cross the brook K...
  14. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:20
    And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her.
    Deuteronomy 22:22
    If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
    John 8:4 - 5
    They said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.
  15. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:8
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
  16. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:15
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
  17. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:23
    And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.
  18. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:22
    You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
  19. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:17
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.
    Deuteronomy 27:23
    "'Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  20. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:23
    And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.
    Exodus 22:19
    Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.
    Deuteronomy 27:21
    "'Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  21. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:15
    If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
  22. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:9
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.
    Deuteronomy 27:22
    "'Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  23. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:19
    You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
    Leviticus 15:24
    And if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
  24. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:12 - 13
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative.
  25. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:6
    None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.
  26. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:14
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
  27. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:16
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.
  28. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:4
    You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
  29. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:25
    And the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
    Leviticus 18:28
    Lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
  30. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:3
    You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.
    Leviticus 18:24
    Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean.
    Leviticus 18:30
    So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
    Deuteronomy 9:5
    Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  31. Cross References
    Exodus 3:17
    And I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."
    Exodus 6:8
    I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.'
  32. Cross References
    Exodus 3:8
    And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  33. Cross References
    Exodus 33:16
    For how shall it be known that I have found fav...
    1 Kings 8:53
    For you separated them from among all the peopl...
    Exodus 19:5
    Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice...
    Deuteronomy 7:6
    For you are a people holy to the Lord your God....
    Deuteronomy 14:2
    For you are a people holy to the Lord your God,...
    1 Kings 8:53
    For you separated them from among all the peopl...
  34. Cross References
    Leviticus 11:2 - 47
    Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
    Deuteronomy 14:4 - 20
    These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat.
  35. Cross References
    Exodus 19:6
    And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.
  36. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:7
    Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.
    Leviticus 11:44
    For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
  37. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:31
    Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
  38. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:2
    Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
  39. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:9
    For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
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