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LEVITICUS: CHAPTER
18-20
LEVITICUS: CHAPTER
18
Laws on Immoral
Relations
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.
23 '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: CHAPTER
19
Idolatry
Forbidden
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.
Sundry Laws
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.' "
LEVITICUS: CHAPTER
20
On Human
Sacrifice and Immoralities
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.
23 '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.
24 '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.' " |
