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Leviticus 20:1-27 — Punishments for Sin

Lev.20.1-27

¹The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²Say to the Israelites: Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners residing in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. ³I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name. ⁴And if the people of the land deliberately overlook that man when he gives some of his offspring to Molech and do not put him to death, ⁵then I myself will set my face against that man and against his clan, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all who prostitute themselves after him by prostituting themselves after Molech. ⁶If a person turns to mediums and spiritists, prostituting himself after them, I will set my face against that person and cut him off from among his people. ⁷Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. ⁸Keep my statutes and do them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you. ⁹For any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is on him. ¹⁰If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. ¹¹If 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 on them. ¹²If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion; their blood is on them. ¹³If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death; their blood is on them. ¹⁴If a man takes a woman and her mother , it is depravity. They shall burn him and both of them with fire, so that there may be no depravity among you. ¹⁵If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. ¹⁶If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death; their blood is on them. ¹⁷If a man takes his sister, whether his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. 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 guilt. ¹⁸If a man lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people. ¹⁹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that exposes one's own flesh. They shall bear their guilt. ²⁰If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. ²¹If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. ²²Keep all my statutes and all my rules, and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to dwell in it may not vomit you out. ²³You shall not walk in the statutes of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them. ²⁴But I said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I myself will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples. ²⁵You shall therefore distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have set apart for you as unclean. ²⁶You shall be holy to me, for I, the LORD, am holy, and I have separated you from the peoples to be mine. ²⁷A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death. They shall stone them with stones; their blood is on them.

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4/11/2026

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