Leviticus 20-22
Revised Geneva Translation
20 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “You shall also say to the children of Israel, ‘Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives his children to Molech, he shall die the death. The people of the land shall stone him to death.
3 ‘And I will set My Face against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he has given his children to Molech, to defile My Sanctuary and to pollute My Holy Name.
4 ‘And if the people of the land hide their eyes—winking at that man when he gives his children to Molech—and do not kill him,
5 ‘then will I set My Face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off and all that go a whoring after him to commit whoredom with Molech from among their people.
6 ‘If anyone turns after such as work with spirits and after soothsayers, to go a whoring after them, then will I set My Face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
7 ‘Sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy. For I am the LORD your God.
8 ‘Therefore, keep My ordinances and do them. I am the LORD, Who sanctifies you.
9 ‘If anyone curses his father or his mother, he shall die the death. He has cursed his father and his mother. His blood shall be upon him.
10 ‘And the man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, because he has committed adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall die the death.
11 ‘And the man who lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. They shall both die, their blood upon them.
12 ‘Also, the man who lies with his daughter-in-law, they both shall die the death. They have wrought abomination, their blood upon them.
13 ‘Also, the man who lies with the male, as one lies with a woman, they have both committed abomination. They shall die the death, their blood upon them.
14 ‘Likewise, he who takes a wife and her mother commits wickedness. They shall burn him and them with fire, so that there is no wickedness among you.
15 ‘Also, the man who lies with a beast shall die the death. And you shall kill the beast.
16 ‘And if a woman comes to any beast, and lies with it, then you shall kill the woman and the beast. They shall die the death, their blood upon them.
17 ‘Also, if a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is wickedness. Therefore, they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He who uncovered his sister’s shame, he shall bear his iniquity.
18 ‘Also, the man who lies with a woman who has her period, and uncovers her nakedness, opens her fountain, and she opens the fountain of her blood, they shall both be cut off from among their people.
19 ‘Moreover, you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, because you have uncovered your kin. They shall bear their iniquity.
20 ‘Likewise, the man who lies with his father’s brother’s wife, and uncovers his uncle’s nakedness, they shall bear their iniquity and shall die childless.
21 ‘So, the man who takes his brother’s wife commits filthiness. He has uncovered his brother’s shame. They shall be childless.
22 ‘Therefore, you shall keep all My Ordinances and all My Judgments, and do them, so that the land where I bring you to dwell does not spew you out.
23 ‘Therefore, you shall not walk in the manners of this Nation which I cast out before you. For they have committed all these things. Therefore, I abhorred them.
24 ‘But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land. And I will give it to you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, Who has separated you from the people.
25 ‘Therefore, you shall distinguish between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean. You shall not defile yourselves with beast and bird, or with any creeping thing that the ground brings forth which I have separated from you as unclean.
26 ‘Therefore, you shall be holy to Me. For I, the LORD, am holy. And I have separated you from the people, so that you should be Mine.
27 ‘And if a man or woman has a spirit of divination or soothsaying in them, they shall die the death. They shall stone them to death, their blood upon them.’”
21 And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘Let no one be defiled by the dead among his people,
2 ‘except for his kinsman who are near to him: his mother or his father or his son or his daughter or his brother
3 ‘or his virgin sister who is near to him and who had not had a husband. For her he may lament.
4 ‘He shall not lament for the Prince among his people, to pollute himself.
5 ‘They shall not make bald places upon their head, nor shave off the locks of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
6 ‘They shall be holy to their God and not pollute the Name of their God. For the sacrifices of the LORD, made by fire, and the bread of their God they offer. Therefore, they shall be holy.
7 ‘They shall not take a whore to wife, or one polluted. Nor shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For such a one is holy to his God.
8 ‘Therefore, you shall sanctify him. For he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you. For I, the LORD, Who sanctifies you, am Holy.
9 ‘If a priest’s daughter falls to play the whore, she pollutes her father. She shall be burnt with fire.
10 ‘Also, the High Priest among his brothers (upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments) shall neither uncover his head nor tear his clothes.
11 ‘Nor shall he go near any dead body, nor make himself unclean by his father or by his mother.
12 ‘Nor shall he go out of the Sanctuary, nor pollute the Holy Place of his God. For the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the LORD.
13 ‘Also, he shall take a virgin for his wife.
14 ‘A widow, or a divorced woman, or a polluted woman, or a harlot, these he shall not marry. But he shall take a virgin of his own people for a wife.
15 ‘Nor shall he defile his seed among his people. For I am the LORD, Who sanctifies him.’”
16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
17 “Speak to Aaron, and say, ‘Whoever of your seed, in their generations, has any blemishes, shall not approach to offer the bread of his God.
18 ‘For whoever has any blemish shall not come near: a man blind or lame, or that has a flat nose, or that has anything misshapen,
19 ‘or a man who has a broken foot or a broken hand,
20 ‘or is crookbacked, or bleary-eyed, or has a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or is a eunuch.
21 ‘None of the seed of Aaron the Priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire. He has a blemish. He shall not approach to offer the bread of his God.
22 ‘The bread of his God, of the Most Holy and of the Holy, he shall eat.
23 ‘But he shall not go in to the Veil, nor come near the Altar, because he has a blemish. He pollutes My Sanctuaries. For I am the LORD, Who sanctifies them.’”
24 Thus spoke Moses to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
22 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, so that they are separated from the Holy things of the children of Israel, and so that they do not pollute My Holy Name in those things which they hallow to Me. I am the LORD.
3 “Say to them, ‘Whoever of all your seed, among your generations after you, who touches the Holy things which the children of Israel hallow to the LORD—having his uncleanness upon him—that person shall be cut off from My sight. I am the LORD.
4 ‘Also, whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or has a discharge, he shall not eat of the Holy things until he is clean. And whoever touches anyone who is unclean by reason of the dead, or a man whose issue of seed runs from him,
5 ‘or the man who touches any creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man by whom he may take uncleanness (whatever uncleanness he has),
6 ‘the person who has touched such ones shall therefore be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the Holy things unless he has washed his flesh with water.
7 ‘But when the Sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall eat of the Holy things afterward. For it is his food.
8 ‘Of a beast that dies naturally, or is torn by other beasts (by which he may be defiled), he shall not eat. I am the LORD.
9 ‘Let them therefore keep My Ordinance, lest if they defile it, they bear their sin for it and die for it. I, the LORD, sanctify them.
10 ‘Also, no stranger shall eat of the Holy thing, nor the guest of the Priest. Nor shall a hired servant eat of the Holy thing.
11 ‘But, if the Priest buys any with money, he shall eat of it. Also, he who is born in his house shall eat of his food.
12 ‘Also, if the Priest’s daughter is married to a stranger, she may not eat of the Holy offerings.
13 ‘Nevertheless, if the Priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and has no child, but has returned to her father’s house, she shall eat of her father’s bread, as she did in her youth. But no stranger shall eat thereof.
14 ‘If a man eats of the Holy thing unwittingly, he shall add a fifth to it and give it to the Priest with the hallowed thing.
15 ‘So shall they not defile the Holy things of the children of Israel which they offer to the LORD,
16 ‘nor cause the people to bear the iniquity of their trespass while they eat their Holy thing. For I, the LORD, hallow them.’”
17 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
18 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who will offer his sacrifice for all their vows and for all their Free Offerings which they use to offer to the LORD for a Burnt Offering,
19 ‘you shall offer of your own free will a male, without blemish, of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats.
20 ‘You shall not offer anything that has a blemish. For that shall not be acceptable for you.
21 ‘And whoever brings a Peace Offering to the LORD to accomplish his vow, or for a Free Offering from the cattle, or from the sheep, his free offering shall be perfect. No blemish shall be in it.
22 ‘Blind or broken or maimed or having an ulcer, or scurvy, or scabs: these shall not be offered to the LORD. Do not make an offering by fire of these upon the Altar of the LORD.
23 ‘However, you may present a bullock or a sheep that is either malformed or lacking for a Free Offering. But it shall not be accepted for a vow.
24 ‘You shall not offer to the LORD that which is bruised or crushed or broken or cut away. Nor shall you make an offering of it in your land.
25 ‘Nor shall you offer any of these as the bread of your God from the hand of a stranger, because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”
26 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
27 “When a bullock or a sheep or a goat shall be brought forth, it shall remain for seven days with its mother. And from the eighth day forth it shall be accepted for a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD.
28 “As for the cow or the ewe, you shall not kill her and her young in one day.
29 “So, when you will offer a Thank Offering to the LORD, you shall offer willingly.
30 “The same day it shall be eaten. You shall leave none of it to tomorrow. I am the LORD.
31 “Therefore, you shall keep My Commandments and do them. I am the LORD.
32 “Nor shall you pollute My Holy Name. But I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. I, the LORD, sanctify you,
33 “Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the LORD.”
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