English Standard Version

Leviticus 20:16-26 English Standard Version (ESV)

16. If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

17. “If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.

18. If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

19. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked one’s relative; they shall bear their iniquity.

20. If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

21. If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

22. “You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.

23. And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.

24. But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

25. You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

26. You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.