Leviticus 20 · Parashat Kedoshim

And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

Again, thou shalt say to the children of Yisra᾽el, Whoever he be of the children of Yisra᾽el, or of the strangers that sojourn in Yisra᾽el, that gives any of his seed to Molekh; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

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

And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives of his seed to Molekh, and kill him not:

then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, going astray after Molekh, from among their people.

And the person that applies to mediums and to wizards, to go astray after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy: for I am the Lord your God.

And you shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

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

And the man that commits adultery with another man’s wife, that commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

And the man that lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought unnatural sin; their blood shall be upon them.

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

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and you shall slay the beast.

And if a woman approach any beast, and lie down before it, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a disgraceful deed; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

And if a man shall lie with a woman during her menstrual sickness, and shall uncover 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.

And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovers his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, into which I bring you to dwell, vomit you not out.

And you shall not walk in the practices of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

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 have separated you from the peoples.

You shall therefore distinguish between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

And you shall be holy to me: for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

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