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Leviticus 20:1

And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Counsel;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Marriage;   Punishment;   Worship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Capital Punishment;   Crimes and Punishments;   Ethics;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord said to Moses,
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told Moses
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: v) Adonai said to Moshe,
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to Moses,
English Standard Version
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord told Moses
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE talked with Moses, and saide:
American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises, and seide,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New King James Version
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
New Living Translation
The Lord said to Moses,
New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses,
New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses,
THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses: "Tell the Israelites, Each and every Israelite and foreigner in Israel who gives his child to the god Molech must be put to death. The community must kill him by stoning. I will resolutely reject that man and cut him off from his people. By giving his child to the god Molech he has polluted my Sanctuary and desecrated my holy name. If the people of the land look the other way as if nothing had happened when that man gives his child to the god Molech and fail to kill him, I will resolutely reject that man and his family, and him and all who join him in prostituting themselves in the rituals of the god Molech I will cut off from their people.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying: 2 Unto the sons of Israel, therefore shalt thou say, What man soever, there may be of the sons of Israel, or of the sojourners that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech, he shall, surely be put to death, - the people of the land shall stone him with stones; 3 I, also, will set my face against that man, and will cut him off out of the midst of his people, - because of his seed, hath he given unto Molech, seeing that he hath made unclean my sanctuary, even to the extent of profaning my holy name. 4 But, if the people of the land, do even hide, their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, - so as not to put him to death, 5 then will I myself, set my face against that man, and against his family, - and will cut him off, and all that follow unchastely after him - in going unchastely after Molech - out of the midst of their people. 6 The person also that turneth unto mediums and unto oracles, in going unchastely after them, then will I set my face against that person, and will cut him off out of the midst of his people. 7 Therefore shall ye hallow yourselves and be holy, - Because I - Yahweh, am your God. 8 Therefore shall ye observe my statutes, and do them, - I - Yahweh, am he that is hallowing you. 9 When, any man whatsoever, curseth his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death, - his father or his mother, hath he cursed, his blood, shall be upon himself.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 12:14 - If ye will Ezra 7:26 - whether it be Jeremiah 7:31 - which I Ezekiel 16:21 - to pass

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
And it came to pass that the boundary of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou enterest in towards Gerar unto Gaza, - as thou enterest in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, as far as Lasha.
Genesis 13:1
So Abram came up out of Egypt he and his wife and all that he had and Lot with him, towards the South.
Genesis 14:7
So they returned and came in unto En-mishpat, the same, is Kadish, and smote all the field of the Amalekites, - and the Amorites also that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar,
Genesis 16:1
But Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children, - she had, however, an Egyptian handmaid, whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:7
And the messenger of Yahweh b found her by the fountain of water in the desert, - by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis 16:14
On this account, is the well called, the well of the life of vision, lo! it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 18:1
And Yahweh appeared unto him among the oaks of Mamre, - as, he, was sitting at the opening of the tent in the heat of the day.
Genesis 20:13
And so it came to pass when the Gods caused me to wander from my fathers house, that I said to her, This, is thy lovingkindness, wherewith thou shalt deal with me, - Into what-soever place we enter, say of me My brother, is he.
Genesis 20:14
Then took Abimelech sheep and oxen and men - servants and maid-servants, and gave to Abraham, - and restored to him Sarah his wife.
Genesis 24:62
Now, Isaac, had come in at the entrance, of Beer-lahai-roi, - for, he, was dwelling in the land of the South:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... After he had delivered the above laws to him in the preceding chapter, he added penalties, to many of them, or declared what punishment should be inflicted on the transgressors of them:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The crimes which are condemned in Leviticus 18:0; Leviticus 19:0 on purely spiritual ground, have here special punishments allotted to them as offences against the well-being of the nation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XX

Of giving seed to Molech, and the punishment of this crime,

1-5.

Of consulting wizards, &c., 6-8.

Of disrespect to parents, 9.

Of adultery, 10.

Of incestuous mixtures, 11, 12.

Bestiality, 13-16.

Different cases of incest and uncleanness, 17-21.

Exhortations and promises, 22-24.

The difference between clean and unclean animals to be

carefully observed, 25.

The Israelites are separated from other nations, that they may

be holy, 26.

A repetition of the law against wizards and them that have

familiar spirits, 27.

NOTES ON CHAP. XX


 
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