Leviticus 20:8
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Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.
6
And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.
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So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.
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And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.
9
Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.
10
And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
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And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.
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And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them.
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And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.
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And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.
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And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction.
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Leviticus 20:5-15 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 20
In this chapter several laws are, repeated, enforced with a penalty annexed to them, and the breach them made capital, to deter from it, as giving seed to Molech, Le 20:1-5; going after such that have familiar spirits, or are wizards, Le 20:6; by shunning which, and other sins, a regard would be shown to holiness, Le 20:7,8; such as cursing parents, Le 20:9; committing adultery, Le 20:10; incestuous copulations, and marriages, and beastly actions, Le 20:11-21; all which it became the Israelites to avoid, lest, when come into the land of Canaan, they should be cast out of it, as the old inhabitants were for the same things, Le 20:22-24; and therefore, that they might appear to be a distinct people from others, they were to put a difference between clean and unclean creatures, Le 20:25,26; and the chapter is closed with a law, making it death for any person to have a familiar spirit, or to be a wizard, Le 19:27.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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