Leviticus 20
Prohibitions against Illegitimate Family Worship
20:1 The
Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums12
20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits13 to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face14 against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.
Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience
20:7 “‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the
Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions16
20:9 “‘If anyone17 curses his father and mother18 he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.19 20:10 If a man20 commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife,21 both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. 20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness.22 Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.23 20:12 If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion;24 their blood guilt is on themselves. 20:13 If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman,25 the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. 20:14 If a man has sexual intercourse with both a woman and her mother,26 it is lewdness.27 Both he and they must be burned to death,28 so there is no lewdness in your midst. 20:15 If a man has sexual intercourse29 with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal. 20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it,30 you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
20:17 “‘If a man has sexual intercourse with31 his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people.32 He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.33 20:18 If a man has sexual intercourse with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them34 must be cut off from the midst of their people. 20:19 You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative.35 They must bear their punishment for iniquity.36 20:20 If a man has sexual intercourse with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless. 20:21 If a man has sexual intercourse with37 his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness;38 they will be childless.
Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience
20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations,39 so that40 the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.
20:23 You must not walk in the statutes of the nation41 which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.
20:24 So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the
Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums
20:27 “‘A man or woman who46 has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit47 must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones;48 their blood guilt is on themselves.’”