who are always ready to do wrong or offer a bribe.

Those who are eager to do wrong draw near; they are far from your law.

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.

To Gershom: His son Libni, his son Jahath, his son Zimmah,

son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei,

For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.

Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.

The company of priests is like a gang of robbers, lying in ambush to pounce on a victim. They commit murder on the road to Shechem; they have done heinous crimes!

I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces throughout the territory occupied by Israel, because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity in Israel.

So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

Slanderous men shed blood within you. Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; they commit obscene acts among you.

You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. I tried to cleanse you, but you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness until I have exhausted my anger on you.

You must not have sexual intercourse with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have intercourse with them. They are closely related to her – it is lewdness.

The following Levites prepared to carry out the king’s orders: From the Kohathites: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah; from the Merarites: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel; from the Gershonites: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;