21. “It is wrong for a man to take his brother’s wife. It would be like having sexual relations with his brother! They will have no children.
22. “You must remember all my laws and rules. And you must obey them. I am leading you to your land. You will live in that country. If you obey my laws and rules, that land will not vomit you out.
23. I am forcing other people to leave that country because they committed all those sins. I hate those sins! So don’t live the way those people lived.
24. But I have told you that you will get their land. I will give their land to you. It will be your land! It is a land filled with many good things. I am the Lord your God. “I have treated you differently from other people.
25. So you must treat clean animals differently from unclean animals. You must also treat clean birds differently from unclean birds. Don’t eat any of these unclean birds or animals or things that crawl on the ground. I have made these things unclean.
26. I have separated you from other nations to be my own special people. So you must be holy because I am the Lord, and I am holy.
27. “A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard must be put to death. The people must kill them with stones. They are responsible for their own death.”