Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Leviticus 20:3-15 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

3. I will be against them and separate them from their people, because they gave their children to Molech. They showed that they did not respect my holy name. And they made my holy place unclean.

4. Maybe the common people will ignore them. Maybe they will not kill those who gave their children to Molech.

5. But I will be against these people and their families. I will separate them from their people. I will separate anyone who is unfaithful to me and chases after Molech.

6. “I will be against anyone who goes to mediums and wizards for advice. Whoever does this is being unfaithful to me. So I will separate them from their people.

7. “Be special. Make yourselves holy, because I am the Lord your God.

8. Remember and obey my laws. I am the Lord. And I have made you my special people.

9. “Whoever curses their father or mother must be put to death. They cursed their father or mother, so they are responsible for their own death!

10. “If a man has sexual relations with his neighbor’s wife, both the man and the woman are guilty of adultery and must be put to death!

11. If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death. It is as if that man had sexual relations with his father!

12. “If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed a terrible sexual sin! They are responsible for their own death.

13. “If a man has sexual relations with another man as with a woman, they have committed a terrible sin. They must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.

14. “It is a sexual sin if a man has sexual relations with a woman and her mother. The people must burn that man and the two women in fire! Don’t let this sexual sin happen among your people.

15. “If a man has sexual relations with an animal, both the man and the animal must be put to death.