Leviticus 20:1-16 ▼

1 The LORD said to Moses:

2 Tell the Israelites: Anyone, whether an Israelite or an alien residing in Israel, who gives offspring to Molech shall be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person.

3 I myself will turn against and cut off that individual from among the people; for in the giving of offspring to Molech, my sanctuary was defiled and my holy name was profaned.

4 If the people of the land condone the giving of offspring to Molech, by failing to put the wrongdoer to death,

5 I myself will turn against that individual and his or her family, and I will cut off from their people both the wrongdoer and all who follow this person by prostituting themselves with Molech.

6 Should anyone turn to ghosts and spirits and prostitute oneself with them, I will turn against that person and cut such a one off from among the people.

7 Sanctify yourselves, then, and be holy; for I, the LORD, your God, am holy.

8 Be careful, therefore, to observe my statutes. I, the LORD, make you holy.

9 Anyone who curses father or mother shall be put to death; and having cursed father or mother, such a one will bear the bloodguilt.

10 If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

11 If a man disgraces his father by lying with his father’s wife, the two of them shall be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.

12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have done what is perverse; their bloodguilt is upon them.

13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, they have committed an abomination; the two of them shall be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.

14 If a man marries a woman and her mother also, that is shameful conduct; the man and the two women as well shall be burned to death, so that shamefulness may not be found among you.

15 If a man has sexual relations with an animal, the man shall be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

16 If a woman goes up to any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall both be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.