1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Moreover, you shall tell the
children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the
strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall
surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from
among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my
sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. 4 If the people of the land all
hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and
don't put him to death; 5 then I will set my face against that man, and
against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute
after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
6 "'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the
wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against
that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
7 "'Sanctify
yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.
8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies
you.
9 "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be
put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon
him.
10 "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he
who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the
adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11 The man who lies with his
father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely
be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
12 "'If a man lies with his
daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a
perversion; their blood shall be upon them.
13 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 shall be upon them.
14 "'If a man takes a wife and
her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and
they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
15 "'If a man lies with an
animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
16 "'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill
the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood
shall be upon them.
17 "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, 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 "'If a man lies with a woman having her
monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain,
and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be
cut off from among their people.
19 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of
your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his
close relative: they shall bear their iniquity. 20 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 "'If a man takes his brother's
wife, it is an 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. 23 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. 24 But I have said to you, "You shall
inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing
with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the
peoples.
25 "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean
animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and
you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by
anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as
unclean for you. 26 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have
set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
27 "'A man
or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely
be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon
them.'"
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