Penalties for These Sins
1Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 2“Tell the Israelites: Any Israelite, or any foreigner living in Israel, who gives one of his children to Molech is to be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him. 3I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name. 4And if the people of the land close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, 5I myself will set my face against that man and his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molech. 6As for the person who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute himself by following them, I will set my face against that person and cut him off from among his people. 7Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am Yahweh your God. 8Keep my statutes and carry them out. I am Yahweh, who makes you holy. 9Anyone who curses his father or his mother is to be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood is on his own head. 10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife — commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife — both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death. 11If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them are to be put to death, and their blood is on their own heads. 12If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death; they have committed a perversion, and their blood is on their own heads. 13If a man lies with a man as with a woman, both of them have done a detestable thing; they are to be put to death, and their blood is on their own heads. 14If a man marries both a woman and her mother, that is depravity; both he and they are to be burned in the fire, so that there is no depravity among you. 15If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you are to kill the animal. 16If a woman approaches an animal to mate with it, you are to kill the woman and the animal; they are to be put to death, and their blood is on their own heads. 17If a man marries his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his, that is a disgrace; they are to be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he will bear his guilt. 18If a man sleeps with a woman during her monthly impurity and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood; both of them are to be cut off from among their people. 19Do not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or your father’s sister, for that would expose a close relative; both will bear their guilt. 20If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they will bear their sin, and they will die childless. 21If a man marries his brother’s wife, that is impurity; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They will be childless. 22Keep all my statutes and all my regulations and carry them out, so that the land where I am bringing you to live does not vomit you out. 23Do not follow the customs of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. 24But I said to you: You will possess their land; I will give it to you as your possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am Yahweh your God, who has set you apart from the peoples. 25You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals, and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves with any animal or bird or anything that crawls on the ground, which I have set apart for you as unclean. 26You are to be holy to me, because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the peoples to be my own. 27A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist is to be put to death; they are to be stoned, and their blood is on their own heads.”
