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Leviticus 20:1-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers, that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die: the people of the land shall stone him.

3. And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.

4. And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little regarding my commandment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed to Moloch, and will not kill him:

5. I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will cut off both him and all that consented with him, to commit fornication with Moloch, out of the midst of their people.

6. The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them, I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.

7. Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy because I am the Lord your God.

8. Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.

9. He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die: he hath cursed his father, and mother, let his blood be upon him.

10. If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife, let then: be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

11. If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.

12. If any man lie with his daughter in law, let both die, because they have done a heinous crime: their blood be upon them.

13. If any one lie with a man se with a woman, both have committed an abomination, let them be put to death: their blood be upon them.

14. If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he hath done a heinous crime: he shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.

15. He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die, the beast also ye shall kill.

16. The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same: their blood be upon them.

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