Leviticus 20

Revised Geneva Translation

20 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

² “You shall also say to the children of Israel, ‘Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives his children to Molech, he shall die the death. The people of the land shall stone him to death.

³ ‘And I will set My Face against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he has given his children to Molech, to defile My Sanctuary and to pollute My Holy Name.

⁴ ‘And if the people of the land hide their eyes—winking at that man when he gives his children to Molech—and do not kill him,

⁵ ‘then will I set My Face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off and all that go a whoring after him to commit whoredom with Molech from among their people.

⁶ ‘If anyone turns after such as work with spirits and after soothsayers, to go a whoring after them, then will I set My Face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

⁷ ‘Sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy. For I am the LORD your God.

⁸ ‘Therefore, keep My ordinances and do them. I am the LORD, Who sanctifies you.

⁹ ‘If anyone curses his father or his mother, he shall die the death. He has cursed his father and his mother. His blood shall be upon him.

¹⁰ ‘And the man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, because he has committed adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall die the death.

¹¹ ‘And the man who lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. They shall both die, their blood upon them.

¹² ‘Also, the man who lies with his daughter-in-law, they both shall die the death. They have wrought abomination, their blood upon them.

¹³ ‘Also, the man who lies with the male, as one lies with a woman, they have both committed abomination. They shall die the death, their blood upon them.

¹⁴ ‘Likewise, he who takes a wife and her mother commits wickedness. They shall burn him and them with fire, so that there is no wickedness among you.

¹⁵ ‘Also, the man who lies with a beast shall die the death. And you shall kill the beast.

¹⁶ ‘And if a woman comes to any beast, and lies with it, then you shall kill the woman and the beast. They shall die the death, their blood upon them.

¹⁷ ‘Also, 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 wickedness. Therefore, they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He who uncovered his sister’s shame, he shall bear his iniquity.

¹⁸ ‘Also, the man who lies with a woman who has her period, and uncovers her nakedness, opens her fountain, and she opens the fountain of her blood, they shall both be cut off from among their people.

¹⁹ ‘Moreover, you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, because you have uncovered your kin. They shall bear their iniquity.

²⁰ ‘Likewise, the man who lies with his father’s brother’s wife, and uncovers his uncle’s nakedness, they shall bear their iniquity and shall die childless.

²¹ ‘So, the man who takes his brother’s wife commits filthiness. He has uncovered his brother’s shame. They shall be childless.

²² ‘Therefore, you shall keep all My Ordinances and all My Judgments, and do them, so that the land where I bring you to dwell does not spew you out.

²³ ‘Therefore, you shall not walk in the manners of this Nation which I cast out before you. For they have committed all these things. Therefore, I abhorred them.

²⁴ ‘But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land. And I will give it to you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, Who has separated you from the people.

²⁵ ‘Therefore, you shall distinguish between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean. You shall not defile yourselves with beast and bird, or with any creeping thing that the ground brings forth which I have separated from you as unclean.

²⁶ ‘Therefore, you shall be holy to Me. For I, the LORD, am holy. And I have separated you from the people, so that you should be Mine.

²⁷ ‘And if a man or woman has a spirit of divination or soothsaying in them, they shall die the death. They shall stone them to death, their blood upon them.’”