⁷ “‘Consecrate yourselves^(A) and be holy,^(B) because I am the Lord your God.^{(C) 8} Keep my decrees^(D) and follow them. I am the Lord, who makes you holy.^(E)

⁹ “‘Anyone who curses their father^(F) or mother^(G) is to be put to death.^(H) Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.^(I)

¹⁰ “‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife^(J)—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.^(K)

¹¹ “‘If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has dishonored his father.^(L) Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.^(M)

¹² “‘If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law,^(N) both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.

¹³ “‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.^(O) They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

¹⁴ “‘If a man marries both a woman and her mother,^(P) it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire,^(Q) so that no wickedness will be among you.^(R)

²² “‘Keep all my decrees and laws^(A) and follow them, so that the land^(B) where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. ²³ You must not live according to the customs of the nations^(C) I am going to drive out before you.^(D) Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.^{(E) 24} But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.”^(F) I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations.^(G)

²⁵ “‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds.^(H) Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you. ²⁶ You are to be holy to me^(I) because I, the Lord, am holy,^(J) and I have set you apart from the nations^(K) to be my own.