Leviticus 20:9

Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions ¹ 

20:9 “‘If anyone ²  curses his father and mother ³  he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself. ⁴ 

Leviticus 20:11-13

20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. ⁵  Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. ⁶  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; ⁷  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, ⁸  the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Leviticus 20:16

20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it, ⁹  you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Leviticus 20:27

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums

20:27 “‘A man or woman who ¹⁰  has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit ¹¹  must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; ¹²  their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

[20:9]  ¹ sn Compare the regulations in Lev 18:6-23.

[20:9]  ² tn Heb “If a man a man who.”

[20:9]  ³ tn Heb “makes light of his father and his mother.” Almost all English versions render this as some variation of “curses his father or mother.”

[20:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “his blood [plural] is in him.” Cf. NAB “he has forfeited his life”; TEV “is responsible for his own death.”

[20:11]  ⁵ sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.

[20:11]  ⁶ tn See the note on v. 9 above.

[20:12]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” (cf. KJV, ASV “they have wrought confusion”).

[20:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “[as the] lyings of a woman.” The specific reference here is to homosexual intercourse between males.

[20:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[20:27]  ¹⁰ tc Smr, LXX, Syriac, and some Targum mss have the relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who, which”), rather than the MT’s כִּי (ki, “for, because, that”).

[20:27]  ¹¹ tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirit” in Lev 19:31 above.

[20:27]  ¹² tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning, but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (see the note on v. 2 above). Smr and LXX have “you [plural] shall pelt them with stones.”