Lev 20:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 20:2 “Say to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Any man of the children of
Yisra’ĕl, or of the strangers who sojourn in Yisra’ĕl, who gives any of his
offspring to Moleḵ, shall certainly be put to death. The people of the land
shall stone him with stones.
Lev 20:3 ‘And I, I shall set My face against that man, and shall cut him off
from the midst of his people, because he has given of his offspring to Moleḵ,
so as to defile My set-apart place and to profane My set-apart Name.
Lev 20:4 ‘And if the people of the land at all hide their eyes from the man,
as he gives any of his offspring to Moleḵ, and they do not kill him,
Lev 20:5 then I shall set My face against that man and against his clan, and
shall cut him off – and all who go whoring after him, even go whoring after
Moleḵ – from the midst of their people.
Lev 20:6 ‘And the being who turns to mediums, and to spiritists, to go
whoring after them, I shall set My face against that being and cut him off from
the midst of his people.
Lev 20:7 ‘And you shall set yourselves apart, and shall be set-apart, for I am
יהוה your Elohim,
Lev 20:8 and you shall guard My laws and do them. I am יהוה, who sets you
apart.
Lev 20:9 ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall certainly
be put to death – he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is on him.
Lev 20:10 ‘And a man who commits adultery with the wife of another man,
who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour: the adulterer and the
adulteress shall certainly be put to death.
Lev 20:11 ‘And a man who lies with the wife of his father has uncovered the
nakedness of his father, both of them shall certainly be put to death, their
blood is upon them.
Lev 20:12 ‘And a man who lies with his daughter-in-law: both of them shall
certainly be put to death, they have made confusion, their blood is upon them.
Lev 20:13 ‘And a man who lies with a male as he lies with a woman: both
of them have done an abomination, they shall certainly be put to death, their
blood is upon them.
Lev 20:14 ‘And a man who marries a woman and her mother: it is
wickedness, they are burned with fire, both he and they, that there be no
wickedness in your midst.
Lev 20:15 ‘And a man who has intercourse with a beast: he shall certainly
be put to death, and the beast you kill.
Lev 20:16 ‘And a woman who approaches any beast and mates with it: you
shall kill the woman and the beast, they shall certainly be put to death, their
blood is upon them.
Lev 20:17 ‘And a man who takes his sister, his father’s daughter or his
mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness: it is
wickedness, and they shall be cut off before the eyes of their people. He has
uncovered his sister’s nakedness, he bears his crookedness.
Lev 20:18 ‘And a man who lies with a woman during her sickness and
uncovers her nakedness: he has laid bare her flow, and she has uncovered the
flow of her blood, both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their
people.
Lev 20:19 ‘And do not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister nor of
your father’s sister, for that is laying bare one’s own flesh, they bear their
crookedness.
Lev 20:20 ‘And a man who lies with his uncle’s wife: he has uncovered his
uncle’s nakedness, they bear their sin, they die childless.
Lev 20:21 ‘And a man who takes his brother’s wife: it is uncleanness, he
has uncovered his brother’s nakedness, they are childless.
Lev 20:22 ‘And you shall guard all My laws and all My right-rulings, and
do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to dwell does not vomit
you out.
Lev 20:23 ‘And do not walk in the laws of the nation which I am driving out
before you, for they do all these, and therefore I loathed them.
Lev 20:24 ‘But I say to you, “You are going to possess their land, and I
Myself give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am
יהוה your Elohim, who has separated you from the peoples.
Lev 20:25 ‘And you shall make a distinction between clean beasts and
unclean, and between unclean birds and clean. And do not make yourselves
abominable by beast or by bird, or whatever creeps on the ground, which I
have separated from you as unclean.
Lev 20:26 ‘And you shall be set-apart to Me, for I יהוה am set-apart, and
have separated you from the peoples to be Mine.
Lev 20:27 ‘And a man or a woman in whom there is a medium, or who are
spiritists, shall certainly be put to death, they are to stone them with stones.
Their blood is upon them.’ ”
Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 20
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