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Leviticus 20:1–5 – Molech and God’s face against evil

What happens: Those who give children to Molech must be put to death; if the people hide their eyes, God himself sets his face against the offender and his family.

What it means: God guards life and his name with zeal. Community complicity is itself guilt before a just God.


Leviticus 20:6–8 – Mediums and consecration

What happens: Seeking mediums brings God’s face against the person. Israel must consecrate themselves and keep God’s statutes.

What it means: Guidance belongs to God, not spirits. Holiness refuses shortcuts to power or knowledge.


Leviticus 20:9 – Cursing parents

What happens: Whoever curses father or mother is put to death.

What it means: Family authority is God-given. Contempt for parents attacks God’s order.


Leviticus 20:10–16 – Adultery and other sexual sins

What happens: Adultery, incest with a father’s wife or daughter-in-law, male with male, and bestiality receive severe penalties. The land must be kept clean.

What it means: Sexual sin damages people and community. God’s justice protects marriage, family, and human dignity.


Leviticus 20:17–21 – Forbidden unions and consequences

What happens: Unions with a sister, a woman during menstruation, an aunt, an uncle’s wife, or a brother’s wife bring guilt, disgrace, or childlessness.

What it means: God draws lines to preserve purity and peace. Crossing them brings lasting harm.


Leviticus 20:22–26 – Be distinct from the nations

What happens: Israel must keep God’s statutes so the land does not vomit them out. God separates them from other peoples and from unclean animals.

What it means: Election is unto holiness. Privilege brings responsibility to live set apart.


Leviticus 20:27 – Mediums and necromancers

What happens: Mediums and necromancers are to be put to death.

What it means: Life with God leaves no place for trafficking with the dead. Worship seeks the living God alone.


Application

  • Protect life and honor God’s name by rejecting idols and the occult.
  • Guard marriage and family with firm boundaries and faithful love.
  • Live distinctly, not blending with practices that defile.
  • Take responsibility for community holiness, not turning a blind eye.

Bible

1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

3And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:

5Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

6And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

7Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

8And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.

9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

10And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

11And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

12And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

13If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

14And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

15And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

16And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

17And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

18And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

19And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

20And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

21And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

23And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

24But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.

25Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

27A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

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