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The Book of Leviticus 20

20 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “And say to the sons of Israel, ‘Any man among the sons of Israel, or among the sojourners who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech, must certainly be put to death. The people of the land must stone him with stones. 3 And I also will set my face against that man and I will cut him off from among his people. For he has given his offspring to Molech, so as to make my holy place unclean and to profane my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land cause their eyes to be hidden at all from that man when he gives his offspring to Molech, so as to not put him to death, 5 then I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. And I will cut him off and all the ones who prostitute themselves after him, by prostituting themselves after Molech, from the midst of their people.

6 And the person who turns to the necromancers or to the soothsayers so as to prostitute themselves after them, I will set my face against that person. And I will cut him off from among his people. 7 So make yourselves holy and be holy ones, because I am Yahweh your God.[fn]

8 And you must keep my statutes and do them. I am Yahweh who makes you holy.

9 If there is any man who curses his father or his mother, he must surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is on him.

10 And if a man commits adultery with a man’s wife, that is, he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress must certainly be put to death.

11 And if a man lies with his father’s wife, he uncovers his father’s nakedness. Both of them must certainly be put to death. Their blood is on them. 12 And if a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them must certainly be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood is on them.

13 And if a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, both of them have done a detestable thing. They must surely be put to death; their blood is on them.

14 And if a man takes a wife and her mother, this is wickedness. In the fire they must be burned, he and they, and there will not be wickedness among you.

15 And if a man lies with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

16 And if a woman comes near to any animal to lie with it, then you must kill the woman and the animal. They must certainly be put to death; their blood is on them.

17 And if a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and he sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they must be cut off in the eyes of the sons of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister. He must bear his iniquity.

18 And if a man lies with a menstruating woman and has uncovered her nakedness, he has exposed her flow and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. And both of them must be cut off from among their people.

19 And the nakedness of your mother’s sister, or your father’s sister, you must not uncover because he would expose his relative. They must bear their iniquity.

20 And if a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They will bear their sin; they will die childless.

21 And if a man takes his brother’s wife, that is disgraceful. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they will be childless.

22 And you must keep all my statutes and all my judgments, and you must do them, and the land which I am bringing you there to dwell in will not vomit you out.

23 And you must not walk in the statutes of the nations that I will drive out from before your face. For they have done all these things, and I detest them.

24 And I said to you, “You will possess 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. 25 And you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. And you must not make yourselves detestable by an animal or by a bird or by anything that crawls on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

26 And you must be holy ones for me, because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have separated you from the peoples to be mine.

27 And if there is among them a man or woman necromancer or soothsayer, they must certainly be put to death. They must stone them with stones. Their blood is on them.’”

Several modern versions have: …because I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

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