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| | Lev 20:1 | The LORD said to Moses,
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| | Lev 20:2 | "Give the Israelites these instructions, which apply to those who are Israelites by birth as well as to the foreigners living among you. If any among them devote their children as burnt offerings to Molech, they must be stoned to death by people of the community.
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| | Lev 20:3 | I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name by giving their children to Molech.
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| | Lev 20:4 | And if the people of the community ignore this offering of children to Molech and refuse to execute the guilty parents,
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| | Lev 20:5 | then I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, along with all those who commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.
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| | Lev 20:6 | "If any among the people are unfaithful by consulting and following mediums or psychics, I will turn against them and cut them off from the community.
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| | Lev 20:7 | So set yourselves apart to be holy, for I, the LORD, am your God.
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| | Lev 20:8 | Keep all my laws and obey them, for I am the LORD, who makes you holy.
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| | Lev 20:9 | "All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense.
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| | Lev 20:10 | "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.
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| | Lev 20:11 | If a man has intercourse with his father's wife, both the man and the woman must die, for they are guilty of a capital offense.
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| | Lev 20:12 | If a man has intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both must be put to death. They have acted contrary to nature and are guilty of a capital offense.
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| | Lev 20:13 | "The penalty for homosexual acts is death to both parties. They have committed a detestable act and are guilty of a capital offense.
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| | Lev 20:14 | If a man has intercourse with both a woman and her mother, such an act is terribly wicked. All three of them must be burned to death to wipe out such wickedness from among you.
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| | Lev 20:15 | "If a man has sexual intercourse with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed.
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| | Lev 20:16 | If a woman approaches a male animal to have intercourse with it, she and the animal must both be put to death. Both must die, for they are guilty of a capital offense.
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| | Lev 20:17 | "If a man has sexual intercourse with his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, it is a terrible disgrace. Both of them must be publicly cut off from the community. Since the man has had intercourse with his sister, he will suffer the consequences of his guilt.
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| | Lev 20:18 | If a man has intercourse with a woman suffering from a hemorrhage, both of them must be cut off from the community, because he exposed the source of her flow, and she allowed him to do it.
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| | Lev 20:19 | "If a man has sexual intercourse with his aunt, whether his mother's sister or his father's sister, he has violated a close relative. Both parties are guilty of a capital offense.
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| | Lev 20:20 | If a man has intercourse with his uncle's wife, he has violated his uncle. Both the man and woman involved are guilty of a capital offense and will die childless.
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| | Lev 20:21 | If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity. He has violated his brother, and the guilty couple will remain childless.
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| | Lev 20:22 | "You must carefully obey all my laws and regulations; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you will vomit you out.
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| | Lev 20:23 | Do not live by the customs of the people whom I will expel before you. It is because they do these terrible things that I detest them so much.
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| | Lev 20:24 | But I have promised that you will inherit their land, a land flowing with milk and honey. I, the LORD, am your God, who has set you apart from all other people.
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| | Lev 20:25 | "You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. You must not defile yourselves by eating any animal or bird or creeping creature that I have forbidden.
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| | Lev 20:26 | You must be holy because I, the LORD, am holy. I have set you apart from all other people to be my very own.
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| | Lev 20:27 | "Men and women among you who act as mediums or psychics must be put to death by stoning. They are guilty of a capital offense."
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