20:1 The LORD spoke to Moses saying: 20:2 “You are to say to the children of Israel, ‘Any man from the childrenof Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel,¹ who gives any of his children² to Molech³ must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones.⁴ 20:3 I myself will set my face⁵ against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people,⁶ because he has given some of his children⁷ to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.⁸ 20:4 If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes⁹ to that man¹⁰ when he gives some of his children¹¹ to Molech so that they do not put him to death, 20:5 I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut him off from the midst of his people—him and all who follow after him in prostitution to commit prostitution by going after Molech.¹²

20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits¹⁴ to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face¹⁵ against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.

20:7 “‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am the LORD your God. 20:8 You must be sure to do my statutes.¹⁶ I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

20:9 “‘If anyone¹⁸ curses his father and mother¹⁹ he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood-guilt is on himself.²⁰ 20:10 If a man²¹ commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife,²² both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. 20:11 If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness.²³ Both of them must be put to death; their blood-guilt is on themselves.²⁴ 20:12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion;²⁵ their blood-guilt is on themselves. 20:13 If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman,²⁶ the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood-guilt is on themselves. 20:14 If a man takes both a woman and her mother,²⁷ it is lewdness.²⁸ Both he and they shall be burned with fire,²⁹ so there is no lewdness in your midst. 20:15 If a man has sexual intercourse³⁰ with any animal, he must be put to death and you must kill the animal. 20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it,³¹ you must kill the woman and the animal must be put to death; their blood-guilt is on themselves.

20:17 “‘If a man takes his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people.³² He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.³³ 20:18 If a man lies with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood, so both of them³⁴ must be cut off from the midst of their people. 20:19 The nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister you must not uncover, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative.³⁵ They must bear their punishment for iniquity.³⁶ 20:20 If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless. 20:21 If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother;³⁷ they will be childless.

20:22 “‘You must be sure to do all my statutes and regulations,³⁸ so that³⁹ the land, into which I am about to bring you to take up residence, does not vomit you out. 20:23 You must not walk in the statutes of the nation⁴⁰ which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I feel disgust against them. 20:24 So I have said to you: you yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to for a possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who has set you apart from the (other) peoples.⁴¹ 20:25 Thus, you must distinguish⁴² between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground which I have distinguished for you as unclean.⁴³ 20:26 You must be holy to me because I the LORD am holy and I have set you apart from the other peoples⁴⁴ to be mine.

20:27 “‘A man or woman who⁴⁵ has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit⁴⁶ must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones.’”⁴⁷