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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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" /><title>Leviticus 20 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/leviticus/20.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Punishments for Sin</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“ ‘I will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“ ‘Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the <span class="name">Lord</span>, who makes you holy.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“ ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“ ‘If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will be held responsible; they will die childless.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“ ‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God, who has set you apart from the nations.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“ ‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You are to be holy to me because I, the <span class="name">Lord</span>, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“ ‘A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.’ ”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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