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Leviticus 18
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, "I am the Lord your God.
3 "You shall not
do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes.
4 "You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the Lord your God.
5 "So you shall keep My statutes and My
judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the Lord.
6 "None of you shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I am the Lord.
7 "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness.
8 "You
shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
9 "The nakedness of your sister, either your father's daughter or
your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
10 "The nakedness of your son's daughter or your
daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness is yours.
11 "The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born to
your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
12 "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's
blood relative.
13 "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's blood relative.
14 "You shall not uncover
the nakedness of your father's brother; you shall not approach his wife, she is your aunt.
15 "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she
is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
16 "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.
17 "You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her
nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness.
18 "You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her
nakedness.
19 "Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.
20 "You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor's wife, to be defiled with her.
21 "You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to
Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.
22 "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
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"Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.
24
"Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.
25 "For the land has
become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.
26 "But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My
judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you
27 (for the men of the land who have been before you have
done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);
28 so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which
has been before you.
29 "For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.
30 "Thus you are to
keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the Lord your
God.' "
Leviticus 19
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 "Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them,
"You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
3 "Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the
Lord your God.
4 "Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the Lord your God.
5 "Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to
the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
6 "It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and the next day; but what remains until the third day
shall be burned with fire.
7 "So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an offense; it will not be accepted.
8 "Everyone who eats it will bear his
iniquity, for he has profaned the holy thing of the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from his people.
9 "Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you
shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10 "Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather
the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God.
11 "You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
12 "You shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the
Lord.
13 "You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.
14 "You shall not
curse a deaf man, nor place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.
15 "You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall
not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
16 "You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you
are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the Lord.
17 "You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor,
but shall not incur sin because of him.
18 "You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as
yourself; I am the Lord.
19 "You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of
seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together.
20 "Now if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but
who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free.
21 "He shall
bring his guilt offering to the Lord to the doorway of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.
22 "The priest shall also make atonement for him with the
ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin which he has committed, and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him.
23 "When you enter the land
and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.
24 "But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord.
25 "In the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield
may increase for you; I am the Lord your God.
26 "You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying.
27 "You shall not
round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.
28 "You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on
yourselves: I am the Lord.
29 "Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.
30 "You shall keep My sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the Lord.
31 "Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by
them. I am the Lord your God.
32 "You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.
33 "When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
34 "The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you,
and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
35 "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.
36 "You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I
am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
37 "You shall thus observe all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am the Lord.'
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Leviticus 20
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "You shall also say to the sons of Israel:
"Any man from the sons of Israel or
from the aliens sojourning 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.
3
"I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My
sanctuary and to profane My holy name.
4 "If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as
not to put him to death,
5 then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who
play the harlot after him, by playing the harlot after Molech.
6 "As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will
also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
7 "You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.
8 "You shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
9 "If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely
be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his bloodguiltiness is upon him.
10 "If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife,
one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
11 "If there is a man who lies with his
father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
12 "If there is a
man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed incest, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
13 "If there is a
man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
14 "If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in
your midst.
15 "If there is a man who lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; you shall also kill the animal.
16 "If there is a woman who
approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
17 "If there
is a man who takes his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; and they
shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he bears his guilt.
18 "If there is a man who lies with a
menstruous woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow, and she has exposed the flow of her blood; thus both of them shall be cut off from among their
people.
19 "You shall also not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for such a one has made naked his blood relative;
they will bear their guilt.
20 "If there is a man who lies with his uncle's wife he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they will bear their sin. They
will die childless.
21 "If there is a man who takes his brother's wife, it is abhorrent; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness. They will be childless.
22 "You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.
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"Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I will drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them.
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"Hence I have said to you, "You are to possess their land, and I Myself will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the
Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
25 "You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the
unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as
unclean.
26 "Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.
27 "Now a man or a woman who is a
medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.' "
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