Lev 20
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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You shall also say to the children of Israel, If there shall be any of the children
of Israel, or of those who have become proselytes in Israel, who shall give of his
seed to Gr. the ruler Moloch, let him be surely put to death; the nation upon the land shall stone him
with stones.
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And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because
he has given of his seed to Moloch, to defile my sanctuary, and profane the name of
them that are consecrated to me.
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And if the natives of the land should in anywise overlook that man in giving of his
seed to Moloch, so as not to put him to death;
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then will I set my face against that man and his family, and I will destroy him, and
all who have been of one mind with him, so that he should go a whoring to Heb. Moloch the princes, from their people.
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And the soul that shall follow those who have in them divining spirits, or enchanters,
so as to go a whoring after them; I will set my face against that soul, and will destroy
it from among its people.
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And you shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
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And you shall observe my ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord that sanctifies you.
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Every man who shall speak evil of his father or of his mother, let him die the death;
has he spoken evil of his father or his mother? he shall be guilty.
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Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit
adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let them die the death, the adulterer and
the adulteress.
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And if any one should lie with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness:
let them both die the death, they are guilty.
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And if any one should lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be put to death;
for they have wrought impiety, they are guilty.
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And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both wrought abomination;
let them die the death, they are guilty.
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Whoever shall take a woman and her mother, it is iniquity: they shall burn him and
them with fire; so there shall not be iniquity among you.
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And whoever shall lie with a beast, let him die the death; and you shall kill the
beast.
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And whatever woman shall approach any beast, so as to have connexion with it, you
shall kill the woman and the beast: let them die the death, they are guilty.
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Whoever shall take his sister by his father or by his mother, and shall see her nakedness,
and she see his nakedness, it is a reproach: they shall be destroyed before the children
of their family; he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, they shall bear their sin.
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And whatever man shall lie with a woman that is set apart for a flux, and shall uncover
her nakedness, he has uncovered her fountain, and she has uncovered the flux of her
blood: they shall both be destroyed from among their generation.
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And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister, or of the sister
of your mother; for that man has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin: they shall
bear their iniquity.
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Whoever shall lie with his near kinswoman, has uncovered the nakedness of one near
akin to him: they shall die childless.
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Whoever shall take his brother’s wife, it is uncleanness; he has uncovered his brother’s
nakedness; they shall die childless.
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And keep you all my ordinances, and my judgements; and you shall do them, and the
land shall not be aggrieved with you, into which I bring you to dwell upon it.
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And walk you not in the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you;
for they have done all these things, and I have abhorred them:
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and I said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession,
even a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, who have separated
you from all people.
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And Gr. you shall separate them you shall make a distinction between the clean and the unclean cattle, and between
clean and unclean birds; and you shall not defile your souls with cattle, or with
birds, or with any creeping things of the earth, which I have separated for you by
reason of uncleanness.
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And you shall be holy to me; because I the Lord your God am holy, who separated you
from all nations, to be mine.
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And as for a man or woman whoever of them shall have in them a divining spirit, or
be an enchanter, let them both die the death: you shall stone them with stones, they
are guilty.