Thematic Bible
Leviticus 20:1 (show verse)
Jehovah continued to speak to Moses:
Leviticus 20:2 (show verse)
Tell the Israelites: 'If Israelites or foreigners living among you give one of their children as a sacrifice to the god Molech, they must be put to death. The common people must stone them to death.
Leviticus 20:3 (show verse)
I will condemn them and exclude them from the people. They gave one of their children to Molech. They made my holy tent unclean, and dishonored my holy name.
Leviticus 20:4 (show verse)
If the people of the land ignore those who give their children to Molech and do not put them to death,
Leviticus 20:5 (show verse)
I will condemn them and their families. I will exclude them from the people. I will exclude from the people everyone who chases after Molech as if he were a prostitute.
Leviticus 20:6 (show verse)
If any of you go for advice to people who consult the spirits of the dead, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you one of my people.
Leviticus 20:7 (show verse)
Keep (consecrate) yourselves holy, because I am Jehovah your God!
Leviticus 20:8 (show verse)
Obey my laws, because I am Jehovah and I make you holy.
Leviticus 20:9 (show verse)
Jehovah gave the following regulations. Any of you that curse your father or mother shall be put to death. You are responsible for your own death.
Leviticus 20:10 (show verse)
If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman should be put to death.
Leviticus 20:11 (show verse)
A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father. Both he and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
Leviticus 20:12 (show verse)
If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have done a disgusting thing and deserve to die.
Leviticus 20:13 (show verse)
When a man has sexual intercourse with another man as with a woman, both men are doing something disgusting and must be put to death. They deserve to die!
Leviticus 20:14 (show verse)
When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.
Leviticus 20:15 (show verse)
If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he and the animal must be put to death.
Leviticus 20:16 (show verse)
If a woman tries to have sexual relations with an animal, she and the animal must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
Leviticus 20:17 (show verse)
If a man marries his sister or half sister, they must be publicly disgraced and driven out of the community. He has had intercourse with his sister and must suffer the consequences.
Leviticus 20:18 (show verse)
If a man has intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, both of them are to be driven out of the community, because they have broken the regulations about ritual uncleanness.
Leviticus 20:19 (show verse)
When a man has intercourse with his aunt, both of them must suffer the consequences for incest.
Leviticus 20:20 (show verse)
Whoever has sexual intercourse with his uncle's wife violates his uncle's marriage. That man and woman are guilty of sin. They will die without children.
Leviticus 20:21 (show verse)
He who marries his brother's wife violates his brother's marriage and does an unclean thing. That man and woman will have no children.
Leviticus 20:22 (show verse)
If you carefully obey all my laws and my rules, the land I am bringing you to live in will not vomit you out.
Leviticus 20:23 (show verse)
The nations I am chasing out did these disgusting things. I hated them for it! So do not follow their example.
Leviticus 20:24 (show verse)
I am Jehovah your God. I have promised you their land that is rich with milk and honey. I have chosen you to be different from other people.
Leviticus 20:25 (show verse)
That is why you must make a difference between animals and birds that I have said are clean and unclean. This will keep you from becoming disgusting to me.
Leviticus 20:26 (show verse)
I am Jehovah, the Holy God. You have been chosen to be my people, and so you must be holy too.
Leviticus 20:27 (show verse)
If you claim to receive messages from the dead, you will be put to death by stoning, just as you deserve.