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¹The Lord told Moses,

²“Tell the Israelites: these regulations are for both Israelites and foreigners living among them. Anyone who sacrifices their children to Molech must be executed. The community must stone them to death.

³I will disown them and expel them from their people, because by sacrificing their children to Molech they have polluted my sanctuary and disgraced my reputation.

⁴If the community decides to look the other way and not execute those who sacrifice their children to Molech, then I will take action against them myself.

⁵I will disown them and their family, and expel them from their people—and not just them, but everyone who follows them in spiritually prostituting themselves with Molech.

⁶I will also disown and expel from their people anyone who goes to mediums or spiritists and in this way commits spiritual prostitution with them.

⁷So dedicate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.

⁸Keep my rules and put them into practice. I am the Lord who makes you holy.

⁹Anyone who curses their father or mother must be executed. They have cursed their father or mother; they bear the responsibility for their punishment.

¹⁰Any man who commits adultery with someone else's wife must be executed, as well as the woman.

¹¹A man who has sex with his father's wife has brought shame on his father. Both the man and the woman must be executed. Both must surely be put to death; they bear the responsibility for their punishment.

¹²A man who has sex with his daughter-in-law must be executed, as well as the woman. They have done something perverse; they bear the responsibility for their punishment.

¹³Men who have sex with other men as with a woman have done something disgusting. They must be executed; they bear the responsibility for their punishment.

¹⁴A man who marries both a woman and her mother has acted perversely. They must all be burned to death so that there will be no such wickedness among you.

¹⁵A man who has sex with an animal must be executed, and the animal must be killed too.

¹⁶A woman who gives herself to an animal to have sex with it must be executed, along with the animal. They must both be killed; they bear the responsibility for their punishment.

¹⁷A man who marries his sister, whether she's his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and they have sex, has done something shameful. They must be expelled from their people in front of everybody. He has brought shame on his sister; he bears the responsibility for his punishment.

¹⁸A man who has sex with a woman having her period he has exposed where her blood flow comes from, and she has too. They must both be expelled from their people.

¹⁹Don't have sex with your aunt, whether on your father or your mother's side, because it brings shame on your own family. Both will bear responsibility for their sin.

²⁰A man who has sex with his uncle's wife brings shame on his uncle. They will bear responsibility for their sin; they shall die without having children.

²¹A man who marries his brother's wife does something that is unclean. He has brought shame on his brother; the couple will have no children.

²²So keep all my rules and regulations, so that the land where I'm taking you to live won't vomit you out.

²³Don't follow the practices of the nations I'm expelling for you. I detested them because they did all these evil things.

²⁴But I have promised you that you will take over their land. I'm going to give it to you to own, a land that flows with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who has made you a distinctive people different from all others.

²⁵So make sure you observe the difference between clean and unclean animals and birds. Don't make yourselves unclean because of any animal or bird, or by anything that runs along the ground. I have made the difference clear: they are unclean for you.

²⁶You shall be holy to me because I am holy. I am the Lord, and I have made you a distinctive people different from all other nations. You belong to me.

²⁷Anyone, man or a woman, who is a medium or a spiritist must be executed. They are to be stoned to death; they bear the responsibility for their punishment.”