6“Whoever turns to mediums20:6 Or spirits of the dead20:6 Lv 19:31; 20:27; Dt 18:11; 1Sm 28:3,7–9; 2Kg 21:6; 23:24; 1Ch 10:13; 2Ch 33:6; Is 8:19; 19:3; 29:4 or spiritists20:6 Or familiar spirits and prostitutes himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.

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

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

10“If a man commits adultery20:10 Ex 20:14; Dt 5:18; 22:22; 31:16; Pr 6:32; Mal 3:5; Mt 5:27–28,32; 19:9,18 with 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 violated the intimacy that belongs to his father.20:11 Lit has uncovered his father’s nakedness20:11 Lv 18:8; Dt 22:30; 27:20; 1Co 5:1 Both of them must be put to death; their death is their own fault.20:11 Lit their blood on them, also in vv. 12,13,16,27

12If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law,20:12 Gn 38:16; Lv 18:15; Ezk 22:11 both of them must be put to death. They have acted perversely; their death is their own fault.

13If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman,20:13 Gn 19:5 they have both committed a detestable act.20:13 Gn 46:34 They must be put to death; their death is their own fault.

14If a man marries20:14 Lit takes, also in vv. 17,21 a woman and her mother,20:14 Lv 18:17 it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned,20:14 Gn 38:24; Lv 18:22; 21:9; Jdg 14:15; Rv 17:16 so that there will be no depravity among you.

15If a man has sexual intercourse with20:15 Lit man gives his emission to an animal, he must be put to death; you are also to kill the animal.

16If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you are to kill the woman and the animal.20:15–16 Ex 22:19 They must be put to death; their death is their own fault.

17If a man marries his sister,20:17 Lv 18:13 whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and they have sexual relations,20:17 Lit and he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness20:17 Lv 18:9 it is a disgrace.20:17 Lv 19:29 They are to be cut off publicly from their people. He has had sexual intercourse with his sister; he will bear his iniquity.

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.20:18 Lv 18:19 Both of them are to be cut off from their people.

19You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister or your father’s sister,20:19 Ex 6:20; Lv 18:12–13 for it is exposing one’s own blood relative; both people will bear their iniquity.

20If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his uncle;20:20 Lit has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness20:20 Lv 18:14 they will bear their guilt and die childless.

21If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity.20:21 Mk 6:18 He has violated the intimacy that belongs to his brother;20:21 Lit has uncovered his brother’s nakedness20:21 Lv 18:16 they will be childless.

27“A man or a woman who is20:27 Lit is in them a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their death is their own fault.”