Leviticus 20
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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a "Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: b 'Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall c stone him with stones.
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d 'I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given some of his descendants to Molech, to defile My sanctuary and profane My holy name.
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'And if the people of the land should in any way hide their eyes from the man, when he gives some of his descendants to Molech, and they do not kill him,
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'then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.
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'And e the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
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f 'Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
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'And you shall keep g My statutes, and perform them: h I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
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'For i everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. j His blood shall be upon him.
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k 'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.
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'The man who lies with his l father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
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'If a man lies with his m daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed perversion. Their blood shall be upon them.
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n 'If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
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'If a man marries a woman and her o mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.
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'If a man mates with an p animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
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'If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them.
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'If a man takes his q sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked thing. And they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness. He shall bear his guilt.
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r 'If a man lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from their people.
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'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your s mother's sister nor of your t father's sister, for that would uncover his near of kin. They shall bear their guilt.
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'If a man lies with his u uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
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'If a man takes his v brother's wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness. They shall be childless.
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'You shall therefore keep all My w statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell x may not vomit you out.
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y 'And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and z therefore I abhor them.
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'But a I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, b who has separated you from the peoples.
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c 'You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, d and you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
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'And you shall be holy to Me, e for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.
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f 'A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.' "
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Leviticus 18:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'I am the LORD your God.
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Leviticus 18:21
And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
2 Kings 23:10
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
2 Chronicles 33:6
Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
Jeremiah 7:31
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.
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Deuteronomy 17:2 - 5
If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant.
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Leviticus 17:10
And whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
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Leviticus 19:31
Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
1 Samuel 28:7 - 25
Then Saul said to his servants, "Find me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." And his servants said to him, "In fact, there is a woman who is a medium at En Dor.
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Leviticus 19:2
Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: 'You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
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Leviticus 19:19
You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.
Leviticus 19:37
'Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the LORD.'"
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Exodus 31:13
Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: 'Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Ezekiel 37:28
"The nations also will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore." '"
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Exodus 21:17
And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 27:16
'Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.
Matthew 15:4
"For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother' ; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'
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2 Samuel 1:16
So David said to him, "Your blood is on your own head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the LORD's anointed.'
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Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
Leviticus 18:20
Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your n...
Deuteronomy 5:18
You shall not commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with a woman married to...
John 8:4
They said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caug...
John 8:5
"Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such ...
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Leviticus 18:7
The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:8
The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness.
Deuteronomy 27:20
'Cursed is the one who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's bed.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
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Leviticus 18:15
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law - she is your son's wife - you shall not uncover her nakedness.
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Leviticus 18:22
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel.
Judges 19:22
As they were enjoying themselves, suddenly certain men of the city, perverted men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!
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Leviticus 18:17
You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near of kin to her. It is wickedness.
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Leviticus 18:23
Nor shall you mate with any animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.
Deuteronomy 27:21
'Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
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Leviticus 18:9
The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or elsewhere, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
Deuteronomy 27:22
'Cursed is the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
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Leviticus 15:24
And if any man lies with her at all, so that her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
Leviticus 18:19
Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is in her customary impurity.
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Leviticus 18:13
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is near of kin to your mother.
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Leviticus 18:12
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is near of kin to your father.
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Leviticus 18:14
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother. You shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
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Leviticus 18:16
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.
Matthew 14:3
For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
Matthew 14:4
Because John had said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her.
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Leviticus 18:26
You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you
Leviticus 19:37
'Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the LORD.'"
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Leviticus 18:25
For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 18:28
Lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
2 Chronicles 36:14 - 16
Moreover all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the LORD which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
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Leviticus 18:3
According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.
Leviticus 18:24
Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.
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Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Exodus 3:17
"and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
Exodus 6:8
'And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the LORD.'"
Exodus 13:5
And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
Exodus 33:1 - 3
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your descendants I will give it.
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Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice...
Exodus 33:16
"For how then will it be known that Your people...
Leviticus 20:26
And you shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am ...
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God;...
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God,...
1 Kings 8:53
"For You separated them from among all the peop...
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Leviticus 10:10
That you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean.
Leviticus 11:1 - 47
Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them.
Deuteronomy 14:3 - 21
You shall not eat any detestable thing.
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Leviticus 11:43
You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps; nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them.
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Leviticus 19:2
Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: 'You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
1 Peter 1:16
Because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy.
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Leviticus 19:31
Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
1 Samuel 28:9
Then the woman said to him, "Look, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the spiritists from the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
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