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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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/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="/bmc//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="/leviticus/">Leviticus</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/leviticus/20.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/leviticus/20.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/leviticus/20.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/leviticus/20.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/leviticus/20.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/leviticus/20.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/20.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Punishments for Disobedience<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../leviticus/26.htm#14">Leviticus 26:14–39</a>; <a href ="../deuteronomy/28.htm#15">Deuteronomy 28:15–68</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If anyone curses<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> his father or mother, he must be put to death.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him. <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Punishments for Sexual Immorality<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../proverbs/5.htm">Proverbs 5:1–23</a>; <a href ="../1_corinthians/5.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1–8</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 must surely be put to death. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity. <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless. <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">Distinguish between Clean and Unclean<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples. <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’<span class="thinq"> </span>”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>dishonors</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>reviles</i><span class="thin"> </span>; similarly again in this verse<br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Cited in <a href="../matthew/15.htm#4">Matthew 15:4</a> and <a href="../mark/7.htm#10">Mark 7:10</a><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Literally <i>and he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Literally <i>uncovers her nakedness</i><span class="thin"> </span>; similarly in verse 19<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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