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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Leviticus 20 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/leviticus/20.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Leviticus 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/19.htm" title="Leviticus 19">◄</a> Leviticus 20 <a href="../leviticus/21.htm" title="Leviticus 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Moreover, thou shalt say to the children of Israel:<p>Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I also will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My holy name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and put him not to death; <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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, to go astray after Molech, from among their people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the soul that turneth unto the ghosts, and unto the familiar spirits, to go astray after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am the LORD your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And keep ye My statutes, and do them: I am the LORD who sanctify you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For whatsoever man there be that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the man that lieth with his father’s wife—he hath uncovered his father’s nakedness—both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have wrought corruption; their blood shall be upon them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And if a man take with his wife also her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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 shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness—he hath made naked her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood—both of them shall be cut off from among their people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister; for he hath made naked his near kin; they shall bear their iniquity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife—he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness—they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Ye shall therefore keep all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances, and do them, that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But I have said unto you: ‘Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the LORD your God, who have set you apart from the peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Ye shall therefore separate between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean; and ye shall not make your souls detestable by beast, or by fowl, or by any thing wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And ye shall be holy unto Me; for I the LORD am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be Mine. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>A man also or a woman that divineth by a ghost or a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../leviticus/19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../leviticus/21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/leviticus/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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