Punishments for Sexual Immorality

Leviticus 20

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.

1. 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.
   
2. Cross References
   Leviticus 18:8
   You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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.
   
5. Cross References
   Leviticus 18:22
   You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
   
6. 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.'
   
7. 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.'
   
8. 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.
   
9. 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.'
   
10. 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.
    
11. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:12 - 13
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative.
    
12. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:6
    None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.
    
13. 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.
    
14. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:16
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.
    

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