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Text -- Leviticus 20:5-27 (NET)
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20:5 I myself will set my face against that man and his clan . I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution , to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech .
Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums
20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people .
Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience
20:7 “‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy , because I am the Lord your God .
20:8 You must be sure to obey my statutes . I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions
20:9 “‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death . He has cursed his father and mother ; his blood guilt is on himself.
20:10 If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife , both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death .
20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife , he has exposed his father’s nakedness . Both of them must be put to death ; their blood guilt is on themselves.
20:12 If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law , both of them must be put to death . They have committed perversion ; their blood guilt is on themselves.
20:13 If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman , the two of them have committed an abomination . They must be put to death ; their blood guilt is on themselves.
20:14 If a man has sexual intercourse with both a woman and her mother , it is lewdness . Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst .
20:15 If a man has sexual intercourse with any animal , he must be put to death , and you must kill the animal .
20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it, you must kill the woman , and the animal must be put to death ; their blood guilt is on themselves.
20:17 “‘If a man has sexual intercourse with his sister , whether the daughter of his father or his mother , so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness , it is a disgrace . They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people . He has exposed his sister’s nakedness ; he will bear his punishment for iniquity .
20:18 If a man has sexual intercourse with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness , he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood , so both of them must be cut off from the midst of their people .
20:19 You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister , for such a person has laid bare his own close relative . They must bear their punishment for iniquity .
20:20 If a man has sexual intercourse with his aunt , he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness ; they must bear responsibility for their sin , they will die childless .
20:21 If a man has sexual intercourse with his brother’s wife , it is indecency . He has exposed his brother’s nakedness ; they will be childless .
Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience
20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations , so that the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out .
20:23 You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.
20:24 So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession , a land flowing with milk and honey . I am the Lord your God who has set you apart from the other peoples .
20:25 Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean , and between the unclean bird and the clean , and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground – creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean .
20:26 You must be holy to me because I , the Lord , am holy , and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.
Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums
20:27 “‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death . They must pelt them with stones ; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Israel |
FAMILY |
Crucifixion |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
Sanitation |
BASTARD |
PUNISHMENTS |
Punishment |
RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY |
CRIME; CRIMES |
Incest |
Marriage |
Adultery |
Holiness |
Homosexuality |
Righteous |
UNCLEANNESS |
Clean |
ALLIANCE |
Familiar spirit |
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NET Notes -> Lev 20:5; Lev 20:5; Lev 20:6; Lev 20:6; Lev 20:6; Lev 20:8; Lev 20:9; Lev 20:9; Lev 20:9; Lev 20:9; Lev 20:9; Lev 20:10; Lev 20:10; Lev 20:11; Lev 20:11; Lev 20:12; Lev 20:13; Lev 20:14; Lev 20:14; Lev 20:14; Lev 20:15; Lev 20:16; Lev 20:17; Lev 20:17; Lev 20:17; Lev 20:18; Lev 20:19; Lev 20:19; Lev 20:21; Lev 20:21; Lev 20:22; Lev 20:22; Lev 20:23; Lev 20:24; Lev 20:25; Lev 20:25; Lev 20:25; Lev 20:27; Lev 20:27; Lev 20:27; Lev 20:27
NET Notes: Lev 20:5 Heb “to commit harlotry after Molech.” The translation employs “worshiping” here for clarity (cf. NAB, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). On...
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NET Notes: Lev 20:8 Heb “And you shall keep my statutes and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modif...
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NET Notes: Lev 20:9 The rendering “blood guilt” refers to the fact that the shedding of blood brings guilt on those who shed it illegitimately (even the blood...
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NET Notes: Lev 20:10 The reading of the LXX minuscule mss has been followed here (see the BHS footnote a-a). The MT has a dittography, repeating “a man who commits a...
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NET Notes: Lev 20:12 The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” (c...
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NET Notes: Lev 20:13 Heb “[as the] lyings of a woman.” The specific reference here is to homosexual intercourse between males.
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NET Notes: Lev 20:14 Heb “in fire they shall burn him and them.” The active plural verb sometimes requires a passive translation (GKC 460 §144.f, g), esp....
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NET Notes: Lev 20:22 Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
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NET Notes: Lev 20:23 One medieval Hebrew ms, Smr, and all the major ancient versions have the plural “nations.” Some English versions retain the singular (e.g....
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NET Notes: Lev 20:24 Here and with the same phrase in v. 26, the LXX adds “all,” resulting in the reading “all the peoples.”
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