Leviticus 20

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Then the LORD said to Moses,

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“Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.

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Molech The Rabbins describe this idol as made of brass sitting upon a throne of the same metal , in the form of a man , with the head of a calf , adorned with a royal crown , and his arms extended as if to embrace any one. When they offered any children to him , they heated the statue by a great fire kindled within , and the victim was put into his arms , and thus consumed. Others relate , that the idol , which was hollow , was divided into seven compartments within; in one of which they put flour , in the second turtles , in the third a ewe , in the fourth a ram , in the fifth a calf , in the sixth an ox , and the seventh a child; which were all burnt together by heating the statue inside. The account which Diodorus . l. xx. gives of the statue of Saturn , to which the Carthaginians , descendants of the Canaanites , sacrificed their children , is very similar. For they had a brazen stature of Saturn , stretching out his hands towards the ground , in such a manner that the children placed within them tumbled down into a pit full of fire. To this account Milton alludes , in Paradise Lost , B. 1. 392.

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And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.

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And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,

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then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

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Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.

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Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

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And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

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Leviticus 20:9

If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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Leviticus 20:10

If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death. |##### Leviticus 20 . 11

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If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood

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If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.

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If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

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If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

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If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.

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Leviticus 20:16

If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

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Leviticus 20:17

If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.

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Leviticus 20:18

If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.

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discovered Heb. made naked

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You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

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If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.

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Leviticus 20:21

If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.

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an unclean thing Heb. a separation

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You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

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You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

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But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.

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a land Milk and honey were the chief dainties of the ancients as they are now among the Arabs , particularly the Bedouins. Hence not only the Hebrews , but also the Greeks and Romans , painted the highest pleasantness and fertility by an abundance of milk and honey. The image used in the text , and frequently by ancient authors on similar subjects , is a metaphor , derived from a breast , producing copious streams of milk.

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You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

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creepeth or , moveth

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You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.

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Leviticus 20:27

A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’”

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