Thematic Bible




Leviticus 20:1 (show verse)

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 20:2 (show verse)

"Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

Leviticus 20:3 (show verse)

I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

Leviticus 20:4 (show verse)

If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death;

Leviticus 20:5 (show verse)

then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

Leviticus 20:6 (show verse)

"'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 20:7 (show verse)

"'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 20:8 (show verse)

You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

Leviticus 20:9 (show verse)

"'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Leviticus 20:10 (show verse)

"'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20:11 (show verse)

"'The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 20:12 (show verse)

"'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 20:13 (show verse)

"'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 20:14 (show verse)

"'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.

Leviticus 20:15 (show verse)

"'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.

Leviticus 20:16 (show verse)

"'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 20:17 (show verse)

"'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 20:18 (show verse)

"'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

Leviticus 20:19 (show verse)

"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.

Leviticus 20:20 (show verse)

If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

Leviticus 20:21 (show verse)

"'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

Leviticus 20:22 (show verse)

"'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.

Leviticus 20:23 (show verse)

You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Leviticus 20:24 (show verse)

But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

Leviticus 20:25 (show verse)

"'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

Leviticus 20:26 (show verse)

You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

Leviticus 20:27 (show verse)

"'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'"