1The LORD spoke to Moses. He said,2‘Say to the Israelites, “Suppose a person sacrifices one of his children to the god Molek. It does not matter whether that person is an Israelite or an outsider who lives in Israel. He must be put to death. The members of the community must kill him by throwing stones at him.3I will turn against that man. I will separate him from his people. That’s because he has sacrificed his child to Molek. He has made my sacred tent ‘unclean’. He has treated my name as if it were not holy.4Suppose the members of the community act as if they don’t know that the man has sacrificed his child to Molek. And suppose they don’t put him to death.5Then I will turn against that man and his family. I will separate them from their people. I will also separate all those who follow him by joining themselves to Molek. They are not faithful to me.6‘ “Suppose someone looks for advice from people who get messages from those who have died. Or they go to people who talk to the spirits of the dead. And they do what those people say. Then they have not been faithful to me. So I will turn against them. I will separate them from their people.7‘ “Set yourselves apart for me. Be holy, because I am the LORD your God.8Obey my rules. Follow them. I am the LORD. I make you holy.9‘ “Anyone who asks for bad things to happen to their father or mother must be put to death. They have cursed their father or mother. So anything that happens to them will be their own fault.10‘ “Suppose a man commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife. Then the man and the woman must be put to death.11‘ “Suppose a man has sex with his father’s wife. Then he has brought shame on his father. The man and the woman must be put to death. Anything that happens to them will be their own fault.12‘ “Suppose a man has sex with his daughter-in-law. Then they must be put to death. They have used sex in the wrong way. Anything that happens to them will be their own fault.13‘ “Suppose a man has sex with another man as he would have sex with a woman. I hate what they have done. They must be put to death. Anything that happens to them will be their own fault.14‘ “Suppose a man gets married to both a woman and her mother. That is evil. All of them must be burned to death. Then there will not be any evil among you.15‘ “Suppose a man has sex with an animal. Then he must be put to death. You must also kill the animal.16‘ “Suppose a woman has sex with an animal. Then kill the woman and the animal. They must be put to death. Anything that happens to them will be their own fault.17‘ “Suppose a man gets married to his sister and has sex with her. That is a shameful thing to do. It does not matter whether she is the daughter of his father or of his mother. They must be separated from their community in front of everyone. That man has brought shame on his sister. He will be responsible for what he has done.18‘ “Suppose a man has sex with a woman during her monthly period. He has uncovered the place where her bleeding was coming from. And she has let him do it. So both of them must be separated from their people.19‘ “Do not have sex with the sister of either your mother or your father. That would bring shame on a close relative. Both of you would be held responsible for what you have done.20‘ “Suppose a man has sex with his aunt. Then he has brought shame on his uncle. Both of them will be held accountable for what they have done. They will die without having any children.21‘ “Suppose a man gets married to his brother’s wife. That is something that should never be done. He has brought shame on his brother. Neither of them will have any children.22‘ “Obey all my rules and laws. Follow them. Then the land where I am bringing you to live will not throw you out.23To make room for you, I am going to drive out the nations that are in the land. You must not follow the practices of those nations. I hated those nations because they did all those things.24But I said to you, ‘You will take over their land as your own. I will give it to you. It will belong to you. It is a land that has plenty of milk and honey.’ I am the LORD your God. I have set you apart from the other nations.25‘ “So you must be able to tell the difference between animals that are ‘clean’ and those that are not. You must know which birds are ‘clean’ and which are not. Do not make yourselves ‘unclean’ by eating any ‘unclean’ animal or bird. Do not make yourselves ‘unclean’ by eating anything that moves along the ground. I have set all of them apart as ‘unclean’ for you.26You must be holy. You must be set apart to me. I am the LORD. I am holy. I have set you apart from the other nations to be my own people.27‘ “Suppose a man or woman gets messages from those who have died. Or suppose a man or woman talks to the spirits of the dead. Then you must put that man or woman to death. You must kill them by throwing stones at them. Anything that happens to them will be their own fault.” ’
Leviticus 20
English Standard Version
Punishment for Child Sacrifice
1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,2“Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. (Le 18:21)3I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name. (Le 17:10; Le 18:21; Le 19:30; Eze 5:11; Eze 23:38)4And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, (De 17:2; De 17:5)5then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech. (Ex 34:15)6“If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. (Le 17:10; Le 19:31)7Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. (Le 11:44)8Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you. (Ex 31:13; Le 18:4; Le 21:8; Le 21:15; Le 21:23; Le 22:32; Eze 37:28)9For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him. (Ex 21:17; Le 20:11; Le 20:13; Le 20:16; Le 20:27; 2Sa 1:16; 1Ki 2:32; 1Ki 2:37)
Punishments for Sexual Immorality
10“If a man commits adultery with the wife of[1] his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. (Le 18:20; De 22:22; Joh 8:4)11If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Le 18:8)12If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them. (Le 18:15; Le 18:23)13If 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 is upon them. (Le 18:22)14If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. (Le 18:17; De 27:23)15If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. (Ex 22:19; Le 18:23; De 27:21)16If 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 is upon them. (Le 20:15)17“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity. (Le 18:9; De 27:22)18If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people. (Le 15:24; Le 18:19)19You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked one’s relative; they shall bear their iniquity. (Le 18:6; Le 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. (Le 18:14)21If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity.[2] He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless. (Le 18:16)
You Shall Be Holy
22“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. (Le 18:4; Le 18:25; Le 18:28)23And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. (Le 18:3; Le 18:24; Le 18:30; De 9:5)24But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples. (Ex 3:8; Ex 3:17; Ex 6:8; Ex 19:5; Ex 33:16; De 7:6; De 14:2; 1Ki 8:53)25You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. (Le 11:2; De 14:4)26You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine. (Ex 19:6; Le 11:44; Le 20:7)27“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.” (Le 19:31; Le 20:2; Le 20:9)