Leviticus 20

1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2“Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones.Cross-references: Lev 17:8 · Lev 17:13 · Lev 17:15 · Lev 18:21 · Lev 20:27 · Lev 24:14 · +22 more

3I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.Cross-references: Lev 15:31 · Lev 17:10 · Lev 18:21 · Num 19:20 · Ezek 5:11 · Ezek 20:39 · +3 more

4If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death,Cross-references: Deut 13:8 · Deut 17:2 · Josh 7:12 · 1Sam 3:13 · 1Ki 20:42 · Acts 17:30 · +1 more

5then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Lev 17:7 · Lev 17:10 · Ps 106:39 · Jer 3:2 · Jer 32:28 · +3 more

6“‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.Cross-references: Ex 34:15 · Lev 19:26 · Lev 19:31 · Lev 20:27 · Num 15:39 · Deut 18:10 · +5 more

7“‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.Cross-references: Lev 11:44 · Lev 19:2 · Eph 1:4 · Phil 2:12 · Col 3:12 · 1Thess 4:3 · +3 more

8You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.Cross-references: Ex 31:13 · Lev 18:4 · Lev 19:37 · Lev 21:8 · Ezek 20:12 · Ezek 37:28 · +9 more

9“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.Cross-references: Ex 21:17 · Lev 20:11 · Lev 20:16 · Lev 20:27 · Deut 27:16 · Josh 2:19 · +9 more

10“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.Cross-references: Ex 20:14 · Lev 18:20 · Deut 5:18 · Deut 22:22 · 2Sam 12:13 · Ezek 23:45 · +1 more

11“‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.Cross-references: Lev 18:7 · Deut 27:20 · Deut 27:23 · Amos 2:7 · 1Cor 5:1

12“‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon themselves.Cross-references: Gen 38:16 · Gen 38:18 · Lev 18:15 · Lev 18:23 · Deut 27:23

13“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.Cross-references: Gen 19:5 · Lev 18:22 · Deut 23:17 · Judg 19:22 · Rom 1:26 · 1Cor 6:9 · +2 more

14“‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.Cross-references: Lev 18:17 · Lev 21:9 · Deut 27:23 · Josh 7:15 · Josh 7:25 · Amos 2:7

15“‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.Cross-references: Ex 22:19 · Lev 18:23 · Deut 27:21

16“‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.Cross-references: Ex 19:13 · Ex 21:28 · Ex 21:32 · Heb 12:20

17“‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. 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 iniquity.Cross-references: Gen 20:12 · Lev 18:9 · Deut 27:22 · 2Sam 13:12 · Ezek 22:11

18“‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.Cross-references: Lev 15:24 · Lev 18:19 · Ezek 18:6 · Ezek 22:10

19“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.Cross-references: Ex 6:20 · Lev 18:6 · Lev 18:12

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.Cross-references: Lev 18:14 · Job 18:19 · Ps 109:13 · Jer 22:30 · Luke 1:7 · Luke 1:25 · +1 more

21“‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.Cross-references: Lev 18:16 · Matt 14:3

22“‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.Cross-references: Ex 21:1 · Lev 18:4 · Lev 18:25 · Lev 19:37 · Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:45 · +14 more

23You 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.Cross-references: Lev 18:3 · Lev 18:24 · Lev 18:27 · Lev 18:30 · Deut 9:5 · Deut 12:30 · +3 more

24But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.Cross-references: Ex 3:8 · Ex 3:17 · Ex 6:8 · Ex 13:5 · Ex 19:5 · Ex 33:3 · +9 more

25“‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.Cross-references: Lev 11:1 · Deut 14:3 · Acts 10:11 · Acts 10:28 · Eph 5:7

26You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.Cross-references: Lev 19:2 · Lev 20:7 · Lev 20:24 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 14:2 · Deut 26:18 · +8 more

27“‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’”Cross-references: Ex 22:18 · Lev 19:31 · Lev 20:6 · Deut 18:10 · 1Sam 28:7