Leviticus 20:8-18

English Standard Version

^8 (A)Keep my statutes and do them; ^(B)I am the Lord who sanctifies you. ⁹ For ^(C)anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; ^(D)his blood is upon him.

Punishments for Sexual Immorality

¹⁰ “If a ^(E)man commits adultery with the wife of^[a] his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. ^11 (F)If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. ^12 (G)If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed ^(H)perversion; their blood is upon them. ^13 (I)If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. ^14 (J)If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. ^15 (K)If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. ^16 (L)If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

^17 (M)“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 the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity. ^18 (N)If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.