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Lord said to Moses, 2 “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him. 3 I will set my face against that man and I will cut him off from his people; for by giving any of his children to Molech he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name. 4 But if the people of the land should ever hide their eyes from that man when he gives any of his children to Molech, and not put him to death, 5 I will set My face against that man and his family, and I will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him by prostituting themselves with Molech.
6 ‘Any person who turns to mediums and spiritists and prostitutes himself with them, I will set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
7 ‘Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. 8 Keep My statutes and do them; I am the Lord, who sets you apart as holy.
9 ‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood will be on his own head.
10 ‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—if he commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
11 ‘If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has brought shame upon his father. Both of them must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
12 ‘If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.
13 ‘If a man has sexual relations with another man as with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
14 ‘If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned with fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.
15 ‘If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal also.
16 ‘If a woman approaches any animal and has sexual relations with it, you are to kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
17 ‘If a man marries his sister, whether she is his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has had sexual relations with his sister; he will bear the consequences of his guilt.
18 ‘If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from their people.
19 ‘You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister or your father’s sister, for that is exposing a close relative; they will both bear the consequences of their guilt.
20 ‘If a man has sexual relations with his uncle’s wife, he has dishonoured his uncle. They will bear their guilt; they will die childless.
21 ‘If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has dishonoured his brother; they will be childless.
22 ‘You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. 23 You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. 24 But I said to you: “You will 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 has set you apart from the peoples.
25 ‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean animals and the unclean, and between unclean birds and the clean. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that crawls along the ground—those I have set apart as unclean for you. 26 You are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
27 ‘A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their blood will be on their own heads’.”