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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 📚“Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the foreigners who are staying in Israel, who gives 📖 any of his offspring to Molech 📖 shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 📚And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given one of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. 4 📚And if the people of the land close their eyes concerning that man when he gives one of his offspring to Molech, and do not kill him, 5 📚then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off from among their people, and all who follow him to prostitute themselves 📖 to Molech.6 📚“And I will set my face against the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to prostitute themselves in following them, and will cut him off from among his people.
7 📚“Therefore sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
20:7 The word “holy” comes from a Hebrew word which means separated or set apart. In the Bible God and certain persons, places, things, and days are said to be holy. When referring to God the word means separate from all evil, all sin, all impurity. Holiness is one of the most striking and awe-inspiring attributes of the God of the Bible. No other literature in existence emphasizes God’s holiness so much or presents it so fully. God is completely, perfectly, utterly holy (Ex 15:11; Lev 11:44; 19:2; 1 Sam 2:2; Ps 145:17; Isa 6:3; Heb 1:12; 1 Pet 1:16; Rev 15:4). God has a hatred of all that is wicked, unclean, sinful.
The whole Bible is the story of how such a holy God devised the way whereby sinful men could be forgiven, purged of their sin, made holy and brought into His gloriously holy presence. Men are holy when God has separated them from others and set them apart for Himself (Ex 19:5-6; Lev 11:44-45; 1 Pet 2:8-10). In the New Testament all believers in Christ are called holy ones (Rom 1:1; Phil 1:1). When God sets apart individuals or a people for Himself He demands that they separate themselves from all sin and evil. And He begins the work of purifying them (Eph 5:25-27; Titus 2:11-14. See also note at John 17:17-19).
8 📚And you shall keep my statutes, and obey them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you 📖.
9 📚“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood will be on his own head.
10 📚“And the man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, both the adulterer who commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
11 📚“And the man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood will be on their own heads.
12 📚“And if a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have worked perversion. Their blood will be on their own heads.
13 📚“And if a man lies with another man, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood will be on their own heads.
14 📚“And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned in the fire, both he and they, so that there will be no wickedness among you.
15 📚“And if a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
16 📚“And if a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood will be on their own heads.
17 📚“And if a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He will bear his guilt.
18 📚“And if a man lies with a woman in her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow, and she has laid bare the flow of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
19 📚“And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, or of your father’s sister, for such a one has uncovered his close relative. They will bear their guilt.
20 📚“And if a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They will bear their sin; they will die childless.
21 📚“And if a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They will be childless.
22 📚“Therefore you shall keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them, so that the land where I am taking you to live does not vomit you out.
20:22Lev 18:28. The ground itself finds it hard to bear the sinners that live on it.🪶
23 📚And you shall not walk in the ways of the nation which I will drive out before you; for they committed all these things, and so I abhorred them. 24 📚But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey”. I am the LORD your God who has separated you from other people.
25 📚“Therefore you shall make a distinction between clean animals and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground which I have separated from you as unclean.
26 📚And you shall be holy for me, for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, so that you would be mine.
27 📚“And a man or woman who is a medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death. They shall stone them with stones. Their blood will be on their own heads”.