Leviticus 20:14   (Read all of Leviticus 20)

" 'If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.

Leviticus 20:15   (Read all of Leviticus 20)

" 'If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

Leviticus 20:19   (Read all of Leviticus 20)

" 'Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.

Leviticus 20:22   (Read all of Leviticus 20)

" 'Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.

Leviticus 20:23   (Read all of Leviticus 20)

You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

Leviticus 20:24   (Read all of Leviticus 20)

But I said to you, "You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations.

Leviticus 20:25   (Read all of Leviticus 20)

" 'You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground-those that I have set apart as unclean for you.

Leviticus 20:26   (Read all of Leviticus 20)

You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.

Leviticus 20:27   (Read all of Leviticus 20)

" 'A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.' "

Leviticus 21:8   (Read all of Leviticus 21)

Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy-I who make you holy.

Leviticus 21:17   (Read all of Leviticus 21)

"Say to Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

Leviticus 22:3   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

"Say to them: 'For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the Lord, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 22:13   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father's household as in her youth, she may eat her father's food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.

Leviticus 22:18   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

"Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: 'If any of you-whether an Israelite or a foreigner residing in Israel-presents a gift for a burnt offering to the Lord, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

Leviticus 22:19   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

you must present a male without defect from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf.

Leviticus 22:20   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

Leviticus 22:23   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow.

Leviticus 22:24   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

You must not offer to the Lord an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land,

Leviticus 22:25   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.' "

Leviticus 22:28   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.

Leviticus 22:29   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

"When you sacrifice a thank offering to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf.

Leviticus 22:32   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the Lord, who made you holy

Leviticus 22:33   (Read all of Leviticus 22)

and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord."

Leviticus 23:2   (Read all of Leviticus 23)

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.