^20 (A)And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. ²¹ You shall not give any of your children to ^(B)offer them^[a] to ^(C)Molech, and so ^(D)profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. ^22 (E)You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. ^23 (F)And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is ^(G)perversion.

^24 (H)“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, ^(I)for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, ²⁵ and the ^(J)land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land ^(K)vomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶ But ^(L)you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the ^(M)native or the stranger who sojourns among you ²⁷ (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), ²⁸ lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. ²⁹ For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. ^30 (N)So keep my charge never to practice ^(O)any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: ^(P)I am the Lord your God.”

The Lord Is Holy

19 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, ^(Q)You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. ^3 (R)Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and ^(S)you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. ^4 (T)Do not turn to idols ^(U)or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.

^5 (V)“When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so ^(W)that you may be accepted. ⁶ It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and anything left over until the third day shall be burned up with fire. ⁷ If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is ^(X)tainted; it will not be accepted, ⁸ and everyone who eats it shall ^(Y)bear his iniquity, because ^(Z)he has profaned what is holy to the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from his people.