LEVITICUS 20
1: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2: Say further to the people of Israel: Any of the people of Israel,
or of the aliens who reside in Israel, who give any of their offspring to
Molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone them to
death.
3: I myself will set my face against them, and will cut them off from
the people, because they have given of their offspring to Molech, defiling my
sanctuary and profaning my holy name.
4: And if the people of the land should ever close their eyes to
them, when they give of their offspring to Molech, and do not put them to
death,
5: I myself will set my face against them and against their family,
and will cut them off from among their people, them and all who follow them in prostituting
themselves to Molech.
6: If any turn to mediums and wizards, prostituting themselves to
them, I will set my face against them, and will cut them off from the
people.
7: Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the Lord
your God.
8: Keep my statutes, and observe them; I am the Lord; I sanctify
you.
9: All who curse father or mother shall be put to death; having
cursed father or mother, their blood is upon them.
10: If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour, both the
adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
11: The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's
nakedness; both of them shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.
12: If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to
death; they have committed perversion, their blood is upon them.
13: If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed
an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.
14: If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is depravity; they shall
be burned to death, both he and they, that there may be no depravity among
you.
15: If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall be put to
death; and you shall kill the animal.
16: If a woman approaches any animal and has sexual relations with it,
you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall be put to death, their
blood is upon them.
17: If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter
of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a
disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has
uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall be subject to punishment.
18: If a man lies with a woman having her sickness and uncovers her
nakedness, he has laid bare her flow and she has laid bare her flow of blood;
both of them shall be cut off from their people.
19: You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of
your father's sister, for that is to lay bare one's own flesh; they shall be
subject to punishment.
20: If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's
nakedness; they shall be subject to punishment; they shall die childless.
21: If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity; he has
uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
22: You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and observe
them, so that the land to which I bring you to settle in may not vomit you
out.
23: You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving
out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
24: But I have said to you: You shall inherit their land, and I will
give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord
your God; I have separated you from the peoples.
25: You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal
and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not
bring abomination on yourselves by animal or by bird or by anything with which
the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.
26: You shall be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy, and I have
separated you from the other peoples to be mine.
27: A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to
death; they shall be stoned to death, their blood is upon them.
LEVITICUS 21
1: The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron,
and say to them: No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his
relatives,
2: except for his nearest kin: his mother, his father, his son, his
daughter, his brother;
3: likewise, for a virgin sister, close to him because she has had no
husband, he may defile himself for her.
4: But he shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and
so profane himself.
5: They shall not make bald spots upon their heads, or shave off the
edges of their beards, or make any gashes in their flesh.
6: They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their
God; for they offer the Lord's offerings by fire, the food of their God;
therefore they shall be holy.
7: They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled;
neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy
to their God,
8: and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of
your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, I who sanctify you, am
holy.
9: When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through
prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.
10: The priest who is exalted above his fellows, on whose head the
anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the
vestments, shall not dishevel his hair, nor tear his vestments.
11: He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself
even for his father or mother.
12: He shall not go outside the sanctuary and thus profane the sanctuary of
his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am
the Lord.
13: He shall marry only a woman who is a virgin.
14: A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, a
prostitute, these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own
kin,
15: that he may not profane his offspring among his kin; for I am the
Lord; I sanctify him.
16: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
17: Speak to Aaron and say: No one of your offspring throughout their
generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the food of his God.
18: For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, one who is blind or
lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,
19: or one who has a broken foot or a broken hand,
20: or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a blemish in his eyes or
an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.
21: No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come
near to offer the Lord's offerings by fire; since he has a blemish, he shall
not come near to offer the food of his God.
22: He may eat the food of his God, of the most holy as well as of the
holy.
23: But he shall not come near the curtain or approach the altar,
because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries; for I am the
Lord; I sanctify them.
24: Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of
Israel.
LEVITICUS 22
1: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2: Direct Aaron and his sons to deal carefully with the sacred
donations of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they may
not profane my holy name; I am the Lord.
3: Say to them: If anyone among all your offspring throughout your
generations comes near the sacred donations, which the people of Israel
dedicate to the Lord, while he is in a state of uncleanness, that person shall
be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.
4: No one of Aaron's offspring who has a leprous disease or suffers a
discharge may eat of the sacred donations until he is clean. Whoever touches
anything made unclean by a corpse or a man who has had an emission of
semen,
5: and whoever touches any swarming thing by which he may be made
unclean or any human being by whom he may be made unclean—whatever his
uncleanness may be—
6: the person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening and
shall not eat of the sacred donations unless he has washed his body in
water.
7: When the sun sets he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of
the sacred donations, for they are his food.
8: That which died or was torn by wild animals he shall not eat,
becoming unclean by it: I am the Lord.
9: They shall keep my charge, so that they may not incur guilt and
die in the sanctuary for having profaned it: I am the Lord; I sanctify
them.
10: No lay person shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired
servant of the priest shall eat of the sacred donations;
11: but if a priest acquires anyone by purchase, the person may eat of them;
and those that are born in his house may eat of his food.
12: If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the
offering of the sacred donations;
13: but if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced, without offspring, and
returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's
food. No lay person shall eat of it.
14: If a man eats of the sacred donation unintentionally, he shall add
one-fifth of its value to it, and give the sacred donation to the priest.
15: No one shall profane the sacred donations of the people of Israel,
which they offer to the Lord,
16: causing them to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, by eating
their sacred donations: for I am the Lord; I sanctify them.
17: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
18: Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say
to them: When anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens residing in Israel
presents an offering, whether in payment of a vow or as a freewill offering
that is offered to the Lord as a burnt offering,
19: to be acceptable in your behalf it shall be a male without
blemish, of the cattle or the sheep or the goats.
20: You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not
be acceptable in your behalf.
21: When anyone offers a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord, in
fulfilment of a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock,
to be acceptable it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.
22: anything blind, or injured, or maimed or having a discharge or an
itch or scabs—these you shall not offer to the Lord or put any of them on the
altar as offerings by fire to the Lord.
23: An ox or a lamb that has a limb too long or too short you may
present for a freewill offering; but it will not be accepted for a vow.
24: Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or
cut, you shall not offer to the Lord; such you shall not do within your
land,
25: nor shall you accept any such animals from a foreigner to offer as
food to your God; since they are mutilated, with a blemish in them, they shall
not be accepted in your behalf.
26: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
27: When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven
days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as the
Lord's offering by fire.
28: But you shall not slaughter, from the herd or the flock, an animal
with its young on the same day.
29: When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, you shall
sacrifice it so that it may be acceptable in your behalf.
30: It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall not leave any of it
until morning: I am the Lord.
31: Thus you shall keep my commandments and observe them: I am the
Lord.
32: You shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among
the people of Israel: I am the Lord; I sanctify you,
33: I who brought
you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord.
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