<p class="poetry">who are always ready to do wrong<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or offer a bribe.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Those who are eager to do<n id="1" /> wrong draw near;p> <p class="poetry">they are far from your law.p>

If a man has sexual intercourse with both a woman and her mother,<n id="1" /> it is lewdness.<n id="2" /> Both he and they must be burned to death,<n id="3" /> so there is no lewdness in your midst.

<p class="bodytext">To Gershom:p> <p class="bodytext">His son Libni, his son Jahath, his son Zimmah,

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

<p class="poetry">For I would have committed<n id="1" /> a shameful act,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">an iniquity to be judged.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Carrying out a wicked scheme<n id="1" /> is enjoyable<n id="2" /> to a fool,p> <p class="poetry">and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.<n id="3" />p>

Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute,<n id="1" /> so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.<n id="2" />p>

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.

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

I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces<n id="1" /> throughout the territory occupied by Israel,<n id="2" /> because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity<n id="3" /> 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.<n id="1" /> Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains;<n id="2" /> they commit obscene acts among you.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I tried to cleanse you,<n id="2" /> but you are not clean.p> <p class="poetry">You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until I have exhausted my anger on you.p>

You must not have sexual intercourse with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son&#8217;s daughter or her daughter&#8217;s daughter to have intercourse with them.<n id="1" /> They are closely related to her<n id="2" /> &#8211; it is lewdness.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">The following Levites prepared to carry out the king&#8217;s orders:<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">From the Kohathites: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;p> <p class="bodytext">from the Merarites: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;p> <p class="bodytext">from the Gershonites: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;p>