Leviticus 20

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1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying:
2 tell these things to the sons of Israel, who are among the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech, shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones;
3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and profane my holy name;
4 and if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
5 I will even set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all Bludyan in the footsteps of his, to go a whoring after Molech.
6 And the soul will turn to the calling of the dead, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I the LORD your God, [holy].
8 Keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
9 Who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; his father and his mother: he hath cursed his blood on it.

10 If the man that committeth adultery with the wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, --da be put to death adulterer and the adulteress.
eleven The man who lies with his father's wife hath 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 wrought confusion; their blood is upon them.
13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: let them be put to death; their blood is upon them.
14 If a man take a wife and her mother also, it is wickedness; the fire shall burn him and them, that there was no wickedness among you.
15 If a man with a beast be put to death, and the beast to kill.
16 If a woman approach unto any beast to lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
17 If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter or your daughter, your mother, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is shame, let them be cut off in the sight of their people; he hath uncovered his sister: he shall bear his iniquity.
18 If a man lies with a woman having her sickness [krovoochischeniya], and shall uncover her nakedness, he hath discovered her, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: both of them shall be cut off from his people.
19 The nakedness of thy father's sister and mother's sister shalt thou not uncover, for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
20 The man who lies with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle; their sin, they shall die childless.
21 If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity; he hath uncovered his brother, they shall be childless.

22 Follow all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them, --and not vomit you from the land, whither I bring you to live.
23 Do not walk in the manners of the people, which I cast out before you; for they all did, and I abhorred them,
24 I have said to you: You shall inherit their land, and I will give it for a heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
25 Feature the clean beast from the unclean and the clean birds from the unclean and do not defile yourselves with livestock and poultry, and all creeping things on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
26 You shall be holy to me, for I am holy, Lord, and I have separated you from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
27 Man or woman, if they are dead or cause a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones, their blood is upon them.

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