Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Moreover, you shall say to the children of Israel,‘Any Israelite or any stranger residing in Israel awho gives any of his children to Molech as a human sacrifice shall most certainly be put to death; bthe people of the land shall stone him with stones.Lev 18:21Lev 20:27; 24:14-23; Num 15:35, 36; Deut 21:21 3 I will also set My face against that man opposing him, withdrawing My protection from him and will cut him off from his people excluding him from the atonement made for them, because he has given some of his children to Molech, so as to adefile My sanctuary and bprofane My holy name.Lev 15:31Lev 18:21 4 If the people of the land should ever tolerate that man when he gives any of his children as a burnt offering to Molech, and fail to put him to death as My law requires, 5 then I shall set My face against that man and against his extended family, and I will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in 1playing the prostitute with Molech.I.e. abandon the true God for an idol.
6 ‘As for the person who turns to amediums who consult the dead or to spiritists, to play the prostitute after them, I shall set My face against that person and will cut him off from his people excluding him from the atonement made for them. Is 54:5Lev 19:31 7 You shall consecrate yourselves therefore, and abe holy; for I am the LORD your God.Eph 1:4; 1 Pet 1:16 8 aYou shall keep My statutes and do them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.Ex 31:13
9 ‘aIf anyone curses his father or mother, he shall most certainly be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on him that is, he bears full responsibility for the consequences.Ex 21:17; Deut 27:16
10 ‘aThe man who commits adultery with another’s wife, even his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall most certainly be put to death. John 8:4-11Ex 20:14; Lev 18:20; Deut 5:18 11 aThe man who lies intimately with his father’s wife has 1uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall most certainly be put to death; their blood is on them.See note 18:7.Lev 18:7, 8; Deut 27:20 12 aIf a man lies intimately with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall most certainly be put to death; they have committed incest; their blood is on them.Lev 18:15 13 aIf a man lies intimately with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed a detestable act; they shall most certainly be put to death; their blood is on them.Lev 18:22 14 aIt is immoral and shameful if a man marries a woman and her mother; all three shall be burned in fire, so that there will be no immorality among you. Josh 7:15, 25Lev 18:17; Deut 27:23 15 aIf a man has intimate relations with an animal, he shall most certainly be put to death; you shall kill the animal also.Lev 18:23; Deut 27:21 16 If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall most certainly be put to death; their blood is on them.
17 ‘aIf a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he bears responsibility for his guilt.Lev 18:9; Deut 27:22 18 aIf a man lies intimately with a woman during her menstrual cycle and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from their people excluding them from the atonement made for them.Lev 15:24; 18:19 19 aYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or your father’s sister, for such a one has uncovered his blood relative; they will bear their guilt.Lev 18:12, 13 20 aIf there is a man who lies intimately with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they will bear their sin. They will die childless.Lev 18:14 21 aIf a man takes his brother’s wife, it is a hated and unclean thing; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They will be childless.Lev 18:16
22 ‘Therefore keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not avomit you out as it did those before you. Lev 18:28Lev 18:28 23 You shall not follow athe statutes of the nation which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and btherefore I have loathed them.Lev 18:3Lev 18:25 24 But I have said to you, “aYou are to inherit and take possession of their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land of plenty 1flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has bseparated you from the peoples .This phrase referred to the abundant fertility of the land of Canaan. Milk (typically that of goats and sheep) was associated with abundance; “honey” referred mainly to syrups made from dates or grapes and was the epitome of sweetness. Bees’ honey was very rare and was considered the choicest of foods.Ex 13:5; 33:1-3Ex 33:16; Lev 20:26 25 aYou are therefore to make a distinction between the ceremonially clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that crawls on the ground, which I have set apart from you as unclean.Lev 10:10; 11:1-47; Deut 14:3-21 26 You are to be holy to Me; for I the LORD am holy, and ahave set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.Lev 20:24
27 ‘A man or woman awho is a medium who pretends to consult the dead or who is a spiritist shall most certainly be put to death, and be stoned with stones; their blood is on them.’”Lev 19:31