Leviticus 18:20-19:8

English Standard Version

²⁰^(A)And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. ²¹You 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, ²⁵and the ^(J)land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land ^(K)vomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶But ^(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), ²⁸lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. ²⁹For 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. ⁶It 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. ⁷If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is ^(X)tainted; it will not be accepted, ⁸and 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.