5 They came to the other side of the sea to the region of the Gerasenes.

² And as soon as He got out of the boat, there met Him out of the tombs a man [under the power] of an unclean spirit.

³ This man ^[a]continually lived among the tombs, and no one could subdue him any more, even with a chain;

⁴ For he had been bound often with shackles for the feet and ^[b]handcuffs, but the handcuffs of [light] chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he rubbed and ground together and broke in pieces; and no one had strength enough to restrain or tame him.

⁵ Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always ^[c]shrieking and screaming and ^[d]beating and bruising and ^[e]cutting himself with stones.

⁶ And when from a distance he saw Jesus, he ran and fell on his knees before Him in homage,

⁷ And crying out with a loud voice, he said, What have You to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? [What is there in common between us?] I ^[f]solemnly implore you by God, do not begin to torment me!

⁸ For Jesus was commanding, Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!

⁹ And He asked him, What is your name? He replied, My name is Legion, for we are many.

¹⁰ And he kept begging Him urgently not to send them [himself and the other demons] away out of that region.

¹¹ Now a great herd of hogs was grazing there on the hillside.

¹² And the demons begged Him, saying, Send us to the hogs, that we may go into them!

¹³ So He gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out [of the man] and entered into the hogs; and the herd, numbering about 2,000, rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea.

¹⁴ The hog feeders ran away, and told [it] in the town and in the country. And [the people] came to see what it was that had taken place.

¹⁵ And they came to Jesus and looked intently and searchingly at the man who had been a demoniac, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, [the same man] who had had the legion [of demons]; and they were ^[g]seized with alarm and struck with fear.

¹⁶ And those who had seen it related in full what had happened to the man possessed by demons and to the hogs.

¹⁷ And they began to beg [Jesus] to leave their neighborhood.

¹⁸ And when He had stepped into the boat, the man who had been controlled by the unclean spirits kept begging Him that he might be with Him.

¹⁹ But Jesus refused to permit him, but said to him, Go home to your own [family and relatives and friends] and bring back word to them of how much the Lord has done for you, and [how He has] had sympathy for you and mercy on you.

²⁰ And he departed and began to publicly proclaim in Decapolis [the region of the ten cities] how much Jesus had done for him, and all the people were astonished and marveled.^(A)

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19 And the Lord said to Moses,

² Say to all the assembly of the Israelites, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.^(A)

³ Each of you shall give due respect to his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths holy. I the Lord am your God.

⁴ Do not turn to idols and things of nought or make for yourselves molten gods. I the Lord am your God.

⁵ And when you offer a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

⁶ It shall be eaten the same day you offer it and on the day following; and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire.

⁷ If it is eaten at all the third day, it is loathsome; it will not be accepted.

⁸ But everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, for he has profaned a holy thing of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from his people [and not be included in the atonement made for them].

⁹ And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very corners, neither shall you gather the fallen ears or gleanings of your harvest.

¹⁰ And you shall not glean your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather its fallen grapes; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord your God.

¹¹ You shall not steal, or deal falsely, or lie one to another.^(B)

¹² And you shall not swear by My name falsely, neither shall you profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

¹³ You shall not defraud or oppress your neighbor or rob him; the wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until morning.

¹⁴ You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall [reverently] fear your God. I am the Lord.

¹⁵ You shall do no injustice in judging a case; you shall not be partial to the poor or show a preference for the mighty, but in righteousness and according to the merits of the case judge your neighbor.

¹⁶ You shall not go up and down as a dispenser of gossip and scandal among your people, nor shall you [secure yourself by false testimony or by silence and] endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

¹⁷ You shall not hate your brother in your heart; but you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.^(C)

¹⁸ You shall not take revenge or bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.^(D)

¹⁹ You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your domestic animals breed with a different kind [of animal]; you shall not sow your field with mixed seed, neither wear a garment of linen mixed with wool.

²⁰ And if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave betrothed to a husband and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, they shall be punished [after investigation]; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free;

²¹ But he shall bring his guilt or trespass offering to the Lord to the door of the Tent of Meeting, a ram for a guilt or trespass offering.

²² The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt or trespass offering before the Lord for his sin, and he shall be forgiven for committing the sin.

²³ And when you come into the land and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit of them as inedible and forbidden to you for three years; it shall not be eaten.

²⁴ In the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy for giving praise to the Lord.

²⁵ But in the fifth year you may eat of the fruit [of the trees], that their produce may enrich you; I am the Lord your God.

²⁶ You shall not eat anything with the blood; neither shall you use magic, omens, or witchcraft [or predict events by horoscope or signs and lucky days].

²⁷ You shall not round the corners of the hair of your heads nor trim the corners of your beard [as some idolaters do].

²⁸ You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print or tattoo any marks upon you; I am the Lord.

²⁹ Do not profane your daughter by causing her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and become full of wickedness.

³⁰ You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary. I am the Lord.

³¹ Turn not to those [mediums] who have familiar spirits or to wizards; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

³² You shall rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man and [reverently] fear your God. I am the Lord.

³³ And if a stranger dwells temporarily with you in your land, you shall not suppress and mistreat him.

³⁴ But the stranger who dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

³⁵ You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

³⁶ You shall have accurate and just balances, just weights, just ephah and hin measures. I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

³⁷ You shall observe all My statutes and ordinances and do them. I am the Lord.

20 And the Lord said to Moses,

² Moreover, you shall say to the Israelites, Any one of the Israelites or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech [the fire god worshiped with human sacrifices] shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

³ I also will set My face against that man [opposing him, withdrawing My protection from him, and excluding him from My covenant] and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his children to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name.

⁴ And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from the man when he gives one of his children [as a burnt offering] to Molech [the fire god] and they overlook it or neglect to take legal action to punish him, winking at his sin, and do not kill him [as My law requires],

⁵ Then I will set My face against that man and against his family and will cut him off from among their people, him and all who follow him to [unfaithfulness to Me, and thus] play the harlot after Molech.

⁶ The person who turns to those who have familiar spirits and to wizards, [being unfaithful to Israel’s Maker Who is her Husband, and thus] playing the harlot after them, I will set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people [that he may not be included in the atonement made for them].^(E)

⁷ Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the Lord your God.

⁸ And you shall keep My statutes and do them. I am the Lord Who sanctifies you.

⁹ Everyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his bloodguilt is upon him.

¹⁰ The man who commits adultery with another’s wife, even his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.^(F)

¹¹ And the man who lies carnally with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of the guilty ones shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

¹² And if a man lies carnally with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have wrought confusion, perversion, and defilement; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

¹³ If a man lies with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed an offense (something perverse, unnatural, abhorrent, and detestable); they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

¹⁴ And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness and an outrageous offense; all three shall be burned with fire, both he and they [after being stoned to death], that there be no wickedness among you.^(G)

¹⁵ And if a man lies carnally with a beast, he shall surely be [stoned] to death, and you shall slay the beast.

¹⁶ If a woman approaches any beast and lies carnally with it, you shall [stone] the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

¹⁷ If a man takes his sister, his father’s or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked and shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has had sexual relations with his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.

¹⁸ And if a man shall lie with a woman having her menstrual pains and shall uncover her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

¹⁹ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked his close kin; they shall bear their iniquity.

²⁰ And if a man shall lie carnally with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless [not literally, but in a legal sense].

²¹ And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless [not literally, but in a legal sense].

²² You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out [as it did those before you].^(H)

²³ You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I was wearied and grieved by 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, Who has separated you from the peoples.

²⁵ You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable with beast or with bird or with anything with which the ground teems or that creeps, which I have set apart from you as unclean.

²⁶ And you shall be holy to Me; for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.

²⁷ A man or woman who is a medium and has a familiar spirit or is a wizard shall surely be put to death, be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

21 The Lord said to Moses, Speak to the priests [exclusive of the high priest], the sons of Aaron, and say to them that none of them shall defile himself for the dead among his people [by touching a corpse or assisting in preparing it for burial],

² Except for his near [blood] kin, for his mother, father, son, daughter, brother,

³ And for his sister, a virgin, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may be defiled.

⁴ He shall not even defile himself, being a [bereaved] husband [his wife not being his blood kin] or being a chief man among his people, and so profane himself.

⁵ The priests [like the other Israelite men] shall not shave the crown of their heads or clip off the corners of their beard or make any cuttings in their flesh.

⁶ They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

⁷ They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or polluted or profane or divorced, for [the priest] is holy to his God.

⁸ You shall consecrate him therefore, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you, for I the Lord Who sanctifies you am holy.

⁹ The daughter of any priest who profanes herself by playing the harlot profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire [after being stoned].^(I)

¹⁰ But he who is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to put on the [sacred] garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose or rend his clothes [in mourning],

¹¹ Neither shall he go in where any dead body lies nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;

¹² Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary nor desecrate or make ceremonially unclean the sanctuary of his God, for the crown or consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

¹³ He shall take a wife in her virginity.

¹⁴ A widow or a divorced woman or a woman who is polluted or profane or a harlot, these he shall not marry, but he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,^(J)

¹⁵ That he may not profane or dishonor his children among his people; for I the Lord do sanctify the high priest.

¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses,

¹⁷ Say to Aaron, Any one of your sons in their successive generations who has any blemish, let him not come near to offer the bread of his God.

¹⁸ For no man who has a blemish shall approach [God’s altar to serve as priest], a man blind or lame, or he who has a disfigured face or a limb too long,

¹⁹ Or who has a fractured foot or hand,

²⁰ Or is a hunchback, or a dwarf, or has a defect in his eye, or has scurvy or itch, or scabs or skin trouble, or has damaged testicles.

²¹ No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish and is disfigured or deformed shall come near [the altar] to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire. He has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

²² He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,

²³ But he shall not come within the veil or come near the altar [of incense], because he has a blemish, that he may not desecrate and make unclean My sanctuaries and hallowed things; for I the Lord do sanctify them.^(K)

²⁴ And Moses told it to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites.