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Leviticus 20:1-11 Modern English Version (MEV)

1. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: Whoever from the children of Israel or from the foreigners who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molek, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him.

3. I will set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his descendants to Molek to defile My sanctuary and to defile My holy name.

4. If the people of the land in any way hide their eyes from the man when he gives of his children to Molek and do not put him to death,

5. then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut them off from their people, both him and those who follow after him as whores after Molek.

6. The person who turns to spirits through mediums and necromancers in order to whore after them, I will even set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

7. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

8. You shall keep My statutes, and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

9. For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood guilt shall be upon him.

10. If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

11. If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood guilt shall be upon them.

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