Leviticus 20:9–21

Family and Sexual Offenses

⁹“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. ^zHe has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on his own hands. ^a

¹⁰If a man commits adultery ^bwith a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. ¹¹If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has shamed his father. ^cBoth of them must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands. ^d12If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, ^eboth of them must be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is on their own hands. ^f13If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, ^gthey have both committed a detestable thing. ^hThey must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands. ⁱ¹⁴If a man marries a woman and her mother, ^jit is depraved. Both he and they must be burned with fire, ^kso that there will be no depravity among you. ¹⁵If a man has sexual intercourse with ^lan animal, he must be put to death; you are also to kill the animal. ¹⁶If a woman comes near any animal and mates with it, you are to kill the woman and the animal. ^mThey must be put to death; their own blood is on them. ¹⁷If a man marries his sister, ⁿwhether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and they have sexual relations, ^opit is a disgrace. ^qThey must be cut off publicly from their people. He has had sexual intercourse with his sister; he will bear his punishment. ¹⁸If a man sleeps with a menstruating woman and has sexual intercourse with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. ^rBoth of them must be cut off from their people. ¹⁹You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister or your father’s sister, ^sfor it is exposing one’s own blood relative; both people will bear their punishment. ²⁰If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has shamed his uncle; ^tthey will bear their guilt and die childless. ²¹If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity. ^uHe has shamed his brother; ^vthey will be childless.