Leviticus
Chapter 20
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2You shall say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel, or of the People living in a land that is not their own. who sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech, shall be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, because he gave of his seed to Molech, so as to make my A holy place set aside for God. unclean and to profane my holy name.
4If the people of the land hide their eyes from that man when he gives of his seed to Molech, and do not put him to death,
5I will set my face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off him and all who go whoring after him, whoring after Molech, from the midst of their people.
6The person who turns to the ghosts and to the knowing spirits, to go whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.
7You shall set yourselves apart and be holy, because I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
8You shall keep my Rules that are meant to last. and do them. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., who sets you apart.
9Any man who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death. He has cursed his father and his mother. His blood is on him.
10A man who commits adultery with a man’s wife, who commits adultery with his fellow’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
11A man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall be put to death. Their blood is on them.
12A man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death. They have done a mixing. Their blood is on them.
13A man who lies with a male the lyings of a woman, both of them have done something abhorrent. They shall be put to death. Their blood is on them.
14A man who takes a woman and her mother, it is a shame. They shall burn him and them in the fire, so there will be no shame among you.
15A man who gives his lying to an animal shall be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
16A woman who comes near any animal for it to mate with her, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall be put to death. Their blood is on them.
17A man who takes his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They shall be cut off in the eyes of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall carry his guilt.
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Chesed in this verse is not the loyalty of the glossary. Here the word is a disgrace. “Loyalty” is the other sense of the same consonants, and it is not printed.
18A man who lies with a woman who is unwell, and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her spring, and she has uncovered the spring of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their people.
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Meqor is the spring, the source of her blood, as in the childbirth chapter. Davah is the woman unwell in her flow.
19The nakedness of your mother’s sister and of your father’s sister you shall not uncover, because he has laid bare his close kin. They shall carry their guilt.
20A man who lies with his aunt has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall carry their offense. They shall die childless.
21A man who takes his brother’s wife, it is a menstrual separation. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.
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Niddah here names the act as an impurity, the same word as menstrual separation. Aririm is childless.
22You shall keep all my Rules that are meant to last. and all my rules and do them, so the land where I am bringing you to live does not vomit you out.
23You shall not walk in the Rules that are meant to last. of the nation I am driving out before you, because they did all these things, and I was disgusted with them.
24I said to you, You shall take possession of their ground, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land oozing milk and honey. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, who set you apart from the peoples.
25You shall set apart the clean animal from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or bird or anything that crawls on the ground, which I have set apart for you as unclean.
26You shall be holy to me, because I, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., am holy, and I have set you apart from the peoples to be mine.
27A man or a woman who has a ghost or a knowing spirit in them shall be put to death. They shall stone them with stones. Their blood is on them.