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If the people of the land close their eyes when a man gives any of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

then I Myself will go against that man and his family. They will not be numbered among God's people, and all who follow him to sell themselves to Molech.

‘If there is anyone who curses his father or mother, he will for sure be put to death. Because he has cursed his father or mother, his blood will be on his own head.

‘If a man does sex sins with another man's wife, even his friend's wife, both the sinful man and woman must be put to death.

If a man lies with his father's wife, he has put his father to shame. Both of the guilty ones must be put to death. They will suffer for their own sin.

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have done a bad sex sin. They will suffer for their own sin.

‘If a man takes his sister, his father's or mother's daughter, and he sees her without clothes on and she sees him, it is a shame. They will be punished in front of their people. He has taken off his sister's clothes. He will suffer for his own sin.

If a man lies with the wife of his father's or mother's brother, he has put to shame his father's or mother's brother. They will suffer for their own sin. They will die without children.

If a man takes his brother's wife, it is sin. He has put his brother to shame. They will have no children.

The Lord said to Moses, "Say to the religious leaders, the sons of Aaron, ‘No one should make himself unclean for a dead person among his people,

except for his own family, his mother, father, son, daughter and brother,

or his young sister who is near to him because she has had no husband. For her he may make himself unclean.

He should not make himself unclean as a husband among his people, and so make himself sinful.

They should not take a woman who is unclean because of selling the use of her body. They should not take a woman who is divorced from her husband. For the religious leader is holy to his God.

‘The head religious leader on whose head the holy oil has been poured, and who has been set apart to wear the clothing, must not take the covering off his head or tear his clothes.

He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

He must not go out of the holy place or sin against the holy place of his God. For the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him. I am the Lord.

He should not marry a woman whose husband has died, or a divorced woman, or one who has made herself sinful by selling the use of her body. But he should marry a woman from his own people, who has never had a man.

By doing this he will not sin against his children among his people. For I am the Lord Who makes him holy.'"

"Say to Aaron, ‘None of your children or their children who has something wrong with his body should go near to give the bread as a gift to his God.