English Standard Version

Leviticus 20:7-17 English Standard Version (ESV)

7. Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

8. Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

9. For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

10. “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

11. If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

12. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them.

13. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

14. If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.

15. If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

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.