Leviticus 20
1MOREOVER the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2Thou shalt also say to the children of Israel, If any of the children of Israel, or of those who have become proselytes among Israel, shall give any of his seed to an Archon let him be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones: and as for me
3I will Myself set My face against that man, and destroy him from among his people, because he hath given of his seed to an Archon, to pollute My holy things, and to profane the name of those who have been hallowed to Me.
4And though those born in the land may, upon seeing him, connive at that man when he giveth of his seed to an Archon, and not kill him,
5I will indeed set My face against that man, and against his family, and destroy him, and all who encourage him, to go a-whoring after the Archons, from among their people.
6And with respect to the person who shall follow trance-speakers and sorcerers, so as to go a-whoring after them, I will set My face against that person, and destroy him from among his people.
7You shall therefore be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.
8And you shall keep My statutes and do them. It is I the Lord who hallow you. Be the man who he may who curseth his father or his mother, let him be put to death.
9He hath cursed his father or his mother, he shall be held guilty.
10Whosoever committeth adultery with the wife of a man who is head of a family, or who shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let both the adulterer and the adulteress be put to death.
11And if anyone lie with his father’s wife he hath uncovered his father’s nakedness, let them be put to death; they are both guilty.
12And if any man lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be put to death; for they have committed wickedness, and are guilty.
13And if any man lie with man as with woman, they have both committed an abomination; let them be put to death. They are guilty.
14And if any man take to wife a mother and a daughter it is a violation of law, they shall burn him and them with fire that there may be no transgressing of law among you.
15And whoever shall lie with a beast, he shall be put to death, and you shall kill the beast.
16And if any woman approach to any beast to be pressed under it, you shall kill the woman and the beast. Let them be put to death. They are guilty.
17Whoever shall take his sister by the same father, or the same mother, and see her nakedness, and she see his; it is a disgraceful act. They shall be excommunicated in the presence of the children of their family. He hath uncovered the nakedness of his sister. They shall bear their sin.
18And if any man lie with his wife during her infirmity, and uncover her nakedness, he hath uncovered her fountain, and she hath discovered her menstrual efflux; they shall both be cut off from their family.
19Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister or thy mother’s sister; for when one uncovereth his near of kin they shall bear their sin.
20Whoever hath lain with his near of kin, he hath uncovered the nakedness of his near relation, they shall die childless.
21If a man take his brother’s wife, it is an act of uncleanness. He hath uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall die childless.
22You shall keep all My statutes and My judgments and do them, that the land to which I am leading you to dwell therein, may not become your mortal enemy.
23You must not walk in the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you. Because they did all these things, therefore I held them in abhorrence,
24and said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all the nations,
25you shall therefore keep yourselves separate by making a distinction between the clean beasts, and the beasts which are unclean; and between the clean birds, and the birds which are unclean; and you shall not pollute yourselves with the beasts, or the birds, or any of the reptiles of the earth which I have distinguished for you, by uncleanness, and you shall be consecrated to Me.
26Because I the Lord your God am the Holy One, who hath separated you from all the nations, that you should be Mine,
27therefore the man, or the woman, among you, who hath become a trance-speaker, or a sorcerer, shall be put to death. Stone them with stones. They are guilty.