These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Leviticus 20
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- 1 And spoke unto , saying:
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Moreover, thou shalt say to the children of : Whosoever he be of the children of , or of the strangers that sojourn in , that giveth of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
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Leviticus 18:21 Leviticus 20:27 Deuteronomy 21:21 Leviticus 24:23 Leviticus 24:14 Isaiah 57:5-6 Ezekiel 23:39 2 Kings 17:17 Ezekiel 20:26 Leviticus 17:8 2 Chronicles 33:6 Psalm 106:38 Numbers 15:35-36 Deuteronomy 13:10-11 2 Kings 23:10 Ezekiel 23:37 Ezekiel 16:20-21 Deuteronomy 12:31 Acts 7:43 Jeremiah 7:31 Deuteronomy 17:5-7 2 Chronicles 28:3 Acts 7:58-59 Jeremiah 32:35 Deuteronomy 18:10 Leviticus 17:15 Ezekiel 20:31 Leviticus 17:13 - 3 I also will set My against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile My , and to profane My .
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And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and put him not to death;
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then I will set My against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, to go astray after Molech, from among their people.
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- 6 And the that turneth unto the ghosts, and unto the familiar spirits, to go astray after them, I will even set My against that , and will cut him off from among his people.
- 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye ; for I am your .
- 8 And keep ye My statutes, and do them: I am who sanctify you.
- 9 For whatsoever man there be that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he hath cursed his father or his mother; his shall be upon him.
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And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
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And the man that lieth with his father’s wife—he hath uncovered his father’s nakedness—both of them shall surely be put to death; their shall be upon them.
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And if a man lie with his daughter-in-, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have wrought corruption; their shall be upon them.
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And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their shall be upon them.
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And if a man take with his wife also her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
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And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast.
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And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their shall be upon them.
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And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness: it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
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And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness—he hath made naked her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her —both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
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And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister; for he hath made naked his near kin; they shall bear their iniquity.
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And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife—he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness—they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
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And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
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Ye shall therefore keep all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances, and do them, that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.
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- 23 And ye 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 unto you: ‘Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am your , who have set you apart from the peoples.
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Ye shall therefore separate between the beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the ; and ye shall not make your souls detestable by beast, or by fowl, or by any thing wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.
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- 26 And ye shall be unto Me; for I am , and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be Mine.
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A man also or a woman that divineth by a ghost or a familiar , shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their shall be upon them.
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