Leviticus 18 Cross References - MSTC

¹ And the LORD talked with Moses, saying, ² "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'I am the LORD your God. ³ Wherefore after the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, see that ye do not; neither after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I will bring you, neither walk ye in their ordinances; ⁴ but do after my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: for I am the LORD your God. ⁵ Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments which, if a man do, he shall live thereby: for I am the LORD. ⁶ "'See that ye go to none of your nighest kindred for to uncover their privities, for I am the LORD. ⁷ The privities of thy father and thy mother, see thou unhele not: she is thy mother, therefore shalt thou not uncover her privities. ⁸ The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities. ⁹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be born at home or without. ¹⁰ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy son's daughter or thy daughter's daughter, for that is thine own privity. ¹¹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, for she is thy sister: thou shalt therefore not uncover her privities. ¹² Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's sister, for she is thy father's next kin. ¹³ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy mother's sister, for she is thy mother's next kinswoman. ¹⁴ Thou shalt not open the privities of thy father's brother; that is, thou shalt not go in to his wife, for she is thine aunt. ¹⁵ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy daughter-in-law, she is thy son's wife; therefore uncover not her privities. ¹⁶ Thou shalt not unhele the privity of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's privity. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of the wife and her daughter also; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their privities: they are her next kin, it were therefore wickedness. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not take a wife and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her privities as long as she liveth. ¹⁹ Thou shalt not go unto a woman to uncover her privity as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. ²⁰ "'Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. ²¹ Thou shalt not give of thy seed to offer it unto Moloch, that thou defile not the name of thy God, for I am the LORD. ²² "'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, for that is abomination. ²³ Thou shalt lie with no manner of beast to defile thyself therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto, for that is abomination. ²⁴ Defile not yourselves in any of these things, for with all these things are these nations defiled which I cast out before you: ²⁵ and the land is defiled, and I will visit the wickedness thereof upon it. And the land shall spew out her inhabiters. ²⁶ Keep ye therefore mine ordinances and judgments, and see that ye commit none of these abominations: neither any of you nor any stranger that sojourneth among you ²⁷ — for all these abominations have the men of the land done which were there before you, and the land is defiled - ²⁸ lest that the land spew you out when ye have defiled it, as it spewed out the nations that were there before you. ²⁹ For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, the same souls that commit them shall perish from among their people. ³⁰ Therefore see that ye keep mine ordinances, that ye commit none of these abominable customs which were committed before you: that ye defile not yourselves therewith, for I am the LORD your God.'"

⁷ Moreover, I will make my covenant between me, and thee, and thy seed after thee; in their times to be an everlasting testament, so that I will be God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

⁷ And I will take you for my people and will be to you a God. And ye shall know that I am the LORD your God which brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

² "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage.

⁴⁴ For I am the LORD your God: be sanctified therefore that ye may be holy, for I am holy; and defile not your souls with any manner thing that creepeth upon the earth.

⁴ but do after my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: for I am the LORD your God.

³ See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God. ⁴ Ye shall not turn unto idols nor make you gods of metal: I am the LORD your God.

¹⁰ Thou shalt not pluck in all thy vineyard clean, neither gather in the grapes that are overscaped. But thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger. I am the LORD your God.

³⁴ But let the stranger that dwelleth with you be as one of your selves, and love him as thy self, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

⁷ Sanctify yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

¹² Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD Jehovah; and blessed are the folk whom he hath chosen to be his inheritance.

⁵ "'In the day when I chose Israel, and lift up mine hand upon the seed of the house of Jacob, and showed myself unto them in the land of Egypt; Yea, when I lift up mine hand over them, and said, 'I am the LORD your God,'

⁷ Then said I unto them, 'Cast away every man the abominations that he hath before him, and defile not yourselves with the Idols of Egypt, for I am the LORD your God.'

¹⁹ for I am the LORD your God. But walk in my statutes; keep my laws and do them; ²⁰ hallow my Sabbaths: for they are a token betwixt me and you, that ye may know how that I am the LORD.'

²⁴ see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them.

²⁴ Defile not yourselves in any of these things, for with all these things are these nations defiled which I cast out before you: ²⁵ and the land is defiled, and I will visit the wickedness thereof upon it. And the land shall spew out her inhabiters. ²⁶ Keep ye therefore mine ordinances and judgments, and see that ye commit none of these abominations: neither any of you nor any stranger that sojourneth among you ²⁷ — for all these abominations have the men of the land done which were there before you, and the land is defiled - ²⁸ lest that the land spew you out when ye have defiled it, as it spewed out the nations that were there before you. ²⁹ For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, the same souls that commit them shall perish from among their people. ³⁰ Therefore see that ye keep mine ordinances, that ye commit none of these abominable customs which were committed before you: that ye defile not yourselves therewith, for I am the LORD your God.'"

²³ And see that ye walk not in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: For they committed all these things, and I abhorred them.

⁴ See ye do not so unto the LORD your God;

³⁰ Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou ask not after their gods saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods, that I may do so likewise?' ³¹ Nay, thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for all abominations which the LORD hated did they unto their gods. For they burnt both their sons and their daughters with fire unto their gods.

³⁵ but were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works -

² Thus sayeth the LORD, "Ye shall not learn after the manner of the Heathen, and ye shall not be afraid for the tokens of heaven: for the Heathen are afraid of such. ³ Yea all the customs and laws of the Gentiles are nothing but vanity. They hew down a tree in the wood with the hands of the workman, and fashion it with the axe;

⁷ Then said I unto them, 'Cast away every man the abominations that he hath before him, and defile not yourselves with the Idols of Egypt, for I am the LORD your God.' ⁸ But they rebelled against me, and would not follow me: to cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and to forsake the Idols of Egypt. Then I made me to pour my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them: Yea, even in the midst of the land of Egypt.

⁸ Neither ceased she from the fornication, that she used with the Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her, they bruised the breasts of her maidenhead, and poured their whoredom upon her.

² And fashion not yourselves like unto this world: But be changed through the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what thing that good, that acceptable, and perfect will of God is.

⁷ Be not, therefore, companions with them. ⁸ Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. ⁹ For the fruit of the spirit is, in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. ¹⁰ Accept that which is pleasing to the Lord, ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather rebuke them.

² that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God. ³ For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time that is past of the life, after the will of the gentiles; walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, in eating, drinking, and in abominable idolatry. ⁴ And it seemeth to them a strange thing that ye run not also with them unto the same excess of riot, and therefore speak they evil of you,

² "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'I am the LORD your God.

²⁶ Keep ye therefore mine ordinances and judgments, and see that ye commit none of these abominations: neither any of you nor any stranger that sojourneth among you

³⁷ that ye should observe all mine ordinances and judgments and that ye should keep them: I am the LORD.'"

²² "'See that ye keep therefore all mine ordinances and all my judgments, and that ye do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out.

¹ And now hearken, Israel, unto the ordinances and laws which I teach you, for to do them: that ye may live and go and conquer the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. ² Ye shall put nothing unto the word which I command you, neither do ought therefrom, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

¹ These are the commandments, ordinances and laws which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

⁴ Thou hast given straight charge to keep thy commandments:

¹⁹ for I am the LORD your God. But walk in my statutes; keep my laws and do them;

²⁷ And I will put my spirit in you, and will make that ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my laws and do them.

²⁴ David my servant shall be their king, and they all shall have one shepherd only. They shall walk in my laws, and my commandments shall they both keep and fulfill.

⁶ Both were perfect before God, and walked in all the laws and ordinances of the Lord, that no man could find fault with them.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

² And God spake unto Moses, saying unto him, "I am the LORD,

⁶ Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and will rid you out of their bondage, and will deliver you with a stretched-out arm and with great judgments.

²⁹ he spake unto him saying, "I am the LORD, see that thou speak unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt all that I say unto thee."

¹¹ I gave them my commandments, and showed them my laws: which whoso keepeth shall live in them.

¹³ And yet the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They would not walk in my commandments; they have cast away my laws, which whoso keepeth should live in them; and my Sabbath days have they greatly unhallowed. Then I made me to pour out my indignation upon them, and to consume them in the wilderness.

²¹ Notwithstanding, their sons rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kept not my laws to fulfill them, which he that doth shall live in them; neither hallowed they my Sabbath days. Then I made me again to pour out my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them in the wilderness.

⁶ For I am the LORD that change not, and ye, O children of Jacob, will not leave off.

²⁸ And he said unto him, "Thou hast answered right. This do and thou shalt live."

⁵ Moses describeth the righteousness which cometh of the law, how that the man which doth the things of the law shall live therein.

¹² The law is not of faith: but the man that fulfilleth the things contained in the law, shall live in them.

⁷ The privities of thy father and thy mother, see thou unhele not: she is thy mother, therefore shalt thou not uncover her privities. ⁸ The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities. ⁹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be born at home or without. ¹⁰ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy son's daughter or thy daughter's daughter, for that is thine own privity. ¹¹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, for she is thy sister: thou shalt therefore not uncover her privities. ¹² Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's sister, for she is thy father's next kin. ¹³ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy mother's sister, for she is thy mother's next kinswoman. ¹⁴ Thou shalt not open the privities of thy father's brother; that is, thou shalt not go in to his wife, for she is thine aunt. ¹⁵ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy daughter-in-law, she is thy son's wife; therefore uncover not her privities. ¹⁶ Thou shalt not unhele the privity of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's privity. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of the wife and her daughter also; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their privities: they are her next kin, it were therefore wickedness. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not take a wife and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her privities as long as she liveth. ¹⁹ Thou shalt not go unto a woman to uncover her privity as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

¹¹ If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads. ¹² If a man lie with his daughter-in-law they shall die both of them: they have wrought abomination, their blood upon their heads.

¹⁷ "'If a man take his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and see her privities, and she see his privities also: it is a wicked thing. Therefore let them perish in the sight of their people; he hath seen his sister's secretness, he shall therefore bear his sin. ¹⁸ If a man lie with a woman in time of her natural disease and uncover her privities and open her fountain, and she also open the fountain of her blood, they shall both perish from among their people. ¹⁹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy mother's sister nor of thy father's sisters, for he that doth so, uncovereth his next kin: and they shall bear their misdoing. ²⁰ If a man lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's privities: they shall bear their sin, and shall die childless. ²¹ If a man take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing; he hath uncovered his brother's privities, they shall be childless therefore.

⁸ The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities. ⁹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be born at home or without. ¹⁰ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy son's daughter or thy daughter's daughter, for that is thine own privity. ¹¹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, for she is thy sister: thou shalt therefore not uncover her privities. ¹² Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's sister, for she is thy father's next kin. ¹³ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy mother's sister, for she is thy mother's next kinswoman. ¹⁴ Thou shalt not open the privities of thy father's brother; that is, thou shalt not go in to his wife, for she is thine aunt. ¹⁵ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy daughter-in-law, she is thy son's wife; therefore uncover not her privities. ¹⁶ Thou shalt not unhele the privity of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's privity.

¹¹ If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.

¹⁴ If a man take a wife and her mother thereto, it is wickedness. Men shall burn with fire both him and them, that there be no wickedness among you.

¹⁰ In thee have they discovered their fathers' shame, in thee have they vexed women in their sickness.

²² And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.

⁴ As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up.

³⁰ No man shall take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's covering.

²⁰ "'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

²¹ And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, "Get thee in unto thy father's concubines which he hath left to keep the house. For when all Israel shall hear that thou hast made thy father to stink, then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong." ²² And so they pitched Absalom a tent upon the top of the house. And he went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

⁷ They tread upon poor men's heads, in the dust of the earth, and crook the ways of the meek. The son and the father go to the harlot, to dishonour my holy name,

¹ There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.

¹¹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, for she is thy sister: thou shalt therefore not uncover her privities.

¹⁷ "'If a man take his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and see her privities, and she see his privities also: it is a wicked thing. Therefore let them perish in the sight of their people; he hath seen his sister's secretness, he shall therefore bear his sin.

²² "'Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, whether she be the daughter of his father or of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

¹¹ and set them before him to eat. And he took her and said unto her, "Come, lie with me my sister." ¹² And she answered him, "Nay, my brother, do not force me, for it ought not to be so in Israel. Do not this folly. ¹³ For whither shall I go with my shame? And thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. But speak unto the king, and he shall not deny me unto thee." ¹⁴ Howbeit, he would not hearken unto her voice but was too strong for her and forced her and lay with her.

¹¹ Every man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbour's wife, and abominably defiled his daughter-in-law. In thee hath every man forced his own sister, even his father's daughter.

²⁰ And Amram took Jochebed his niece to wife which bare him Aaron and Moses. And Amram lived a hundred and thirty seven years.

¹⁹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy mother's sister nor of thy father's sisters, for he that doth so, uncovereth his next kin: and they shall bear their misdoing. ²⁰ If a man lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's privities: they shall bear their sin, and shall die childless.

¹⁸ Then said he, "What pledge shall I give thee?" And she said, "Thy signet, thy necklace, and thy staff that is in thy hand." And he gave it her and lay by her, and she was with child by him. ¹⁹ And she gat her up and went and put her mantle from her, and put on her widow's raiment again.

²⁶ And Judah knew them, saying, "She is more righteous than I, because I gave her not to Shelah my son." But he lay with her no more.

¹² If a man lie with his daughter-in-law they shall die both of them: they have wrought abomination, their blood upon their heads.

²¹ If a man take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing; he hath uncovered his brother's privities, they shall be childless therefore.

⁵ When brethren dwell together and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not be given out unto a stranger: but her brother-in-law shall go in unto her and take her to wife and marry her.

³ For Herod had taken John and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. ⁴ For John said unto him, "It is not lawful for thee to have her."

²⁴ saying, "Master, Moses bade, if a man die having no children, that the brother marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

¹⁷ For Herod himself had sent forth, and had taken John, and bound him and cast him into prison for Herodias' sake, which was his brother Philip's wife. For he had married her.

¹⁹ "Master, Moses wrote unto us, if any man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children: that then his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

¹⁹ Then Herod the Tetrarch; when he was rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done;

²³ "'Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

¹⁹ And Lamech took him two wives: the one was called Adah, and the other Zillah.

²⁸ And Jacob did even so, and passed out that week, and then he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

¹⁵ And Lea answered, "Is it not enough, that thou hast taken away my husband, but wouldest take away my son's mandragoras also?" Then said Rachel, "Well, let him sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandragoras."

³ five curtains shall be coupled together one to another: and the other five likewise shall be coupled together one to another.

⁶ And thereto her enemy Peninnah vexed her a good in casting her in the teeth how the LORD had made her barren. ⁷ And so did she year by year, as oft as she went up to the house of the LORD. And so chafed her: wherefore Hannah wept and ate not. ⁸ Then said Elkanah her husband to her, "Hannah why weepest thou? And why eatest thou not? And why is thine heart so troubled? Am not I better to thee, than ten sons?"

¹⁵ So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.

² "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, 'When a woman hath conceived and hath borne a manchild, she shall be unclean seven days: even in like manner as when she is put apart in time of her natural disease.

¹⁹ When a woman's natural course of blood runneth, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean unto the evening.

²⁴ And if a man lie with her in the mean time, he shall be put apart as well as she and shall be unclean seven days, and all his couch wherein he sleepeth shall be unclean.

¹⁸ If a man lie with a woman in time of her natural disease and uncover her privities and open her fountain, and she also open the fountain of her blood, they shall both perish from among their people.

⁶ he eateth not upon the hills; he lifteth not his eyes up to the Idols of Israel; he defileth not his neighbour's wife; he meddleth with no menstruous woman;

¹⁴ "Thou shalt not break wedlock.

¹⁰ He that breaketh wedlock with another man's wife shall die for it, because he hath broke wedlock with his neighbour's wife, and so shall she likewise.

¹⁸ 'Thou shalt not break wedlock.

²² If a man be found lying with a woman that hath a wedded husband, they shall die: both the man that lie with the wife, and also the wife. So shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

²⁵ But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and lie with her: Then the man that lay with her shall die alone,

³ And it was answered again, that she was Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam and wife to Uriah the Hittite. ⁴ And David sent messengers and fetched her, and she came unto him, and he lay with her. And she was straightway purified of her uncleanness, and returned unto her house.

²⁷ and she was his wife and bare him a son. But the deed that David had committed displeased the LORD.

²⁵ that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.

²⁹ Even so, whosoever goeth in to his neighbour's wife, and toucheth her, can not be unguilty. ³⁰ Men do not utterly despise a thief, that stealeth to satisfy his soul, when he is hungry: ³¹ But if he may be gotten, he restoreth again seven times as much, or else he maketh recompense with all the goods of his house. ³² But whoso committeth adultery with a woman, he is a fool: and destroyeth his own soul. ³³ He getteth himself also shame and dishonour, such as shall never be put out.

⁵ I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

²⁷ "Ye have heard how it was said to them of old time, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery:' ²⁸ But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a wife lusting after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

²² Thou sayest, a man should not commit adultery: and thou breakest wedlock.

⁹ Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind,

¹⁹ The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

⁴ Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.

¹² Ye shall not swear by my name falsely, that thou defilest not the name of thy God; I am the LORD.

² "Tell the children of Israel, whosoever he be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that dwell in Israel that giveth of his seed unto Moloch, he shall die for it: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. ³ And I will set my face upon that fellow, and will destroy him from among his people: because he hath given of his seed unto Moloch, for to defile my sanctuary and to pollute mine holy name. ⁴ And though that the people of the land hide their eyes from that fellow, when he giveth of his seed unto Moloch, so that they kill him not: ⁵ yet I will put my face upon that man and upon his household, and will destroy him and all that go a whoring with him and commit whoredom with Moloch from among their people.

⁶ They shall be holy unto their God, and not pollute the name of their God, for the sacrifices of the LORD and the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they must be holy.

² "Bid Aaron and his sons that they abstain from the hallowed things of the children of Israel which they have hallowed unto me, that they pollute not mine holy name: for I am the LORD.

³² And pollute not my holy name, that I may be hallowed among the children of Israel. For I am the LORD which hallow you,

³¹ Nay, thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for all abominations which the LORD hated did they unto their gods. For they burnt both their sons and their daughters with fire unto their gods.

¹⁰ Let there not be found among you that maketh his son or his daughter go through fire, either a bruterer or a maker of dismal days, or that useth witchcraft, or a sorcerer,

⁷ After that, Solomon built an altar for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites in the hill that standeth before Jerusalem, and unto Moloch the abomination of the children of Ammon.

³³ because they have forsaken me, and have bowed themselves unto Ashtaroth the God of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh the God of the Moabites and to Milcom the God of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that pleaseth me, and mine ordinances and customs, as David his father.

³ But went in the way of the kings of Israel, and thereto he offered his son in fire, after the abomination of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

⁶ And he offered his son in fire, and observed dismal days; and used witchcraft and maintained workers with spirits, and tellers of fortunes — and wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD to anger him.

¹⁰ And he defiled Tophet also, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, because no man should offer his son or his daughter in fire to Moloch.

³⁷ Yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils, ³⁸ and shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters; whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood.

³¹ They have also builded an altar at Tophet, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom: that they might burn their sons and daughters - which I never commanded them, neither came it ever in my thought.

⁵ for they have set up an altar unto Baal, to burn their children for a burnt offering unto Baal, which I neither commanded, nor charged them, neither thought once thereupon.

³¹ In all your idols, whereunto ye bring your oblations, and to whose honour ye burn your children: ye defile yourselves, even unto this day. How dare ye then come, and ask any question at me? O ye household of Israel: As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, ye get no answer of me.

³⁷ namely, that they have broken their wedlock, and stained their hands with blood: yea even with their idols have they committed adultery, and offered them their own children to be devoured, whom they have born unto me.

²⁰ Now when they were gone unto the Heathen, and come in among them they dishonoured my holy name: so that it was said of them, 'Are these the people of God, and must go out of their own land?' ²¹ Then spared I my holy name, which the house of Israel had dishonoured among the Gentiles, to whom they came. Therefore tell the house of Israel: ²² 'Thus saith the LORD: I will sanctify my name that is defiled among the heathen. Which ye have defiled among them: ²³ that the heathen may know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I am sanctified upon you in their sight.

²⁶ Yet have ye set up tabernacles to your Moloch, and images of your Idols, yea and the star of your god Rempha: figures which ye made to worship them.

¹² But ye have unhallowed it, in that ye say, 'The altar of the LORD is not to be regarded, and the thing that is set thereupon, not worthy to be eaten.'

⁴³ And ye took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, figures which ye made to worship them. And I will translate you beyond Babylon.'

²³ and turned the glory of the immortal God, unto the similitude of the image: of mortal man, and of birds, and four footed beasts and of serpents.

²⁴ For the name of God is evil spoken-of among the gentiles, through you, as it is written.

⁵ And they called unto Lot and said unto him, "Where are the men which came into thy house tonight? Bring them out unto us that we may do our lust with them."

¹³ If a man lie with the mankind after the manner as with womankind, they have both committed an abomination and shall die for it. Their blood be upon their heads.

¹⁸ Thou shalt neither bring the hire of an whore nor the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God, in no manner of vow: for even both of them are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

²² And as they were making their hearts merry, the men of the city which were wicked, set the house round about, and thrust at the door, and spake to the man of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him."

²⁴ And thereto there was a stews of male children in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

²⁶ For this cause, God gave them up unto shameful lusts. For even their women did change the natural use unto the unnatural. ²⁷ And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman, and burnt in their lusts, one on another, among themselves. And man with man wrought filthiness: and received in themselves the reward of their error, as it was according.

¹⁰ and whoremongers; to them that defile themselves with mankind; to menstealers; to liars and to perjured, and so forth if there be any other thing that is contrary to wholesome doctrine

⁷ even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them — which in like manner defiled themselves, with fornication, and followed strange flesh — are set forth for an example, and suffer the vengeance of eternal fire.

¹⁹ Whosoever lieth with a beast, shall be slain for it.

¹⁵ If a man lie with a beast he shall die, and ye shall slay the beast. ¹⁶ If a woman go unto a beast and lie down thereto: thou shalt kill the woman and the beast also they shall die, and their blood be upon their heads.

²¹ "'Cursed be he that lieth with any manner beast.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

³ Wherefore after the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, see that ye do not; neither after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I will bring you, neither walk ye in their ordinances;

⁶ "'See that ye go to none of your nighest kindred for to uncover their privities, for I am the LORD. ⁷ The privities of thy father and thy mother, see thou unhele not: she is thy mother, therefore shalt thou not uncover her privities. ⁸ The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities. ⁹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be born at home or without. ¹⁰ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy son's daughter or thy daughter's daughter, for that is thine own privity. ¹¹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, for she is thy sister: thou shalt therefore not uncover her privities. ¹² Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's sister, for she is thy father's next kin. ¹³ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy mother's sister, for she is thy mother's next kinswoman. ¹⁴ Thou shalt not open the privities of thy father's brother; that is, thou shalt not go in to his wife, for she is thine aunt. ¹⁵ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy daughter-in-law, she is thy son's wife; therefore uncover not her privities. ¹⁶ Thou shalt not unhele the privity of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's privity. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of the wife and her daughter also; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their privities: they are her next kin, it were therefore wickedness. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not take a wife and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her privities as long as she liveth. ¹⁹ Thou shalt not go unto a woman to uncover her privity as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. ²⁰ "'Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. ²¹ Thou shalt not give of thy seed to offer it unto Moloch, that thou defile not the name of thy God, for I am the LORD. ²² "'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, for that is abomination. ²³ Thou shalt lie with no manner of beast to defile thyself therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto, for that is abomination.

³⁰ Therefore see that ye keep mine ordinances, that ye commit none of these abominable customs which were committed before you: that ye defile not yourselves therewith, for I am the LORD your God.'"

²² "'See that ye keep therefore all mine ordinances and all my judgments, and that ye do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out. ²³ And see that ye walk not in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: For they committed all these things, and I abhorred them.

¹² For all that do such things are abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee.

⁴ Howbeit, I sent unto them my servants all the prophets: I rose up early, I sent unto them, and gave them warning. 'O do no such abominable things, and things that I hate.'

¹⁸ But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy. ²⁰ These are the things which defile a man. But to eat with unwashen hands, defileth not a man."

¹⁰ For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother,' and, 'Whosoever curseth father or mother, let him die for it.' ¹¹ But ye say, 'A man shall say to his father or mother, Corban; which is, that thou desirest of me, to help thee with, is given to God.' ¹² And so ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother, ¹³ making the word of God of none effect through your own traditions which ye have ordained. And many such things ye do." ¹⁴ And he called all the people unto him, and said unto them, "Hearken unto me every one of you and understand: ¹⁵ There is nothing without a man that can defile him when it entereth into him, but those things which proceed out of him are those which defile the man. ¹⁶ If any man have ears to hear, let him hear." ¹⁷ And when he came into a house away from the people, his disciples asked him of the similitude, ¹⁸ and he said unto them, "Are ye so without understanding? Do ye not yet perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into a man, it cannot defile him, ¹⁹ because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly: and goeth out into the draught that purgeth out all meats." ²⁰ And he said, "That defileth a man which cometh out of a man. ²¹ For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder, ²² theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: ²³ All these evil things come from within, and defile a man."

¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

²⁸ lest that the land spew you out when ye have defiled it, as it spewed out the nations that were there before you.

³³ "'And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that shed it. ³⁴ Defile not therefore the land which ye inhabit, and in the midst of which I also dwell, for I am the LORD which dwell among the children of Israel.'"

⁵ It is not for thy righteousness' sake and right heart that thou goest to possess their land: But partly for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee, and partly to perform that which the LORD thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

³² I will visit their offenses with the rod, and their sins with scourges.

³⁸ and shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters; whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood.

⁵ For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant.

²¹ For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.

⁷ And when I had brought you into a pleasant well builded land, that ye might enjoy the fruits and all the commodities of the same: ye went forth and defiled my land, and brought mine heritage to abomination.

⁹ Should I not correct this, sayeth the LORD? Should I not be avenged of every people, that is like unto this?

²⁹ Should I not punish these things, sayeth the LORD? Should I not be avenged of all such people as these be?"

⁹ Should I not punish them for these things, sayeth the LORD? Or should I not be avenged of any such people as this?

¹⁰ Then spake the LORD, concerning this people that have pleasure to go so nimbly with their feet, and leave not off, and therefore displease the LORD; insomuch that he will now bring again to remembrance all their misdeeds, and punish all their sins.

¹⁸ But first will I sufficiently reward their shameful blasphemies and sins, wherewith they have defiled my land: Namely, with their stinking Idols and abominations, wherewith they have filled mine heritage."

² Wherefore, this is the commandment of the LORD God of Israel, unto the shepherds that feed my people, "Ye scatter and thrust out my flock, and look not upon them. Therefore now will I visit the wickedness of your imaginations, sayeth the LORD:

¹⁷ "O thou son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt upon their own ground, they defiled themselves with their own ways and imaginations: so that in my sight their way was like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. ¹⁸ Wherefore I poured my wrathful displeasure upon them, because of the blood that they had shed in the land, and because of their Idols, wherewith they had defiled themselves.

¹³ I will punish her also for the days of Baal, wherein she censed him, decking him with her earrings and chains: when she followed her lovers, and forgat me, sayeth the LORD.

¹³ Whereas they do sacrifice, offering the flesh and eating it, the LORD will have no pleasure therein: but will remember their wickedness, and punish their sins. Israel turneth again into Egypt:

⁹ They be gone too far, and have destroyed themselves, like as they did afore time at Gibeah. Therefore their wickedness shall be remembered, and their sins punished.

²² For we know that every creature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain even unto this time.

⁸ "And thou shalt say unto them, 'Whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that offereth a burnt offering or any other offering,

¹⁰ And whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will destroy him from among his people,

⁵ Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments which, if a man do, he shall live thereby: for I am the LORD.

⁴⁰ Keep therefore his ordinances, and his commandments which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth which the LORD thy God giveth thee forever."

³² But whatsoever I command you, that take heed ye do: and put nought thereto, nor take ought therefrom.

⁴⁴ and gave them the lands of the Heathen; where they took the labours of the people in possession, ⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

¹⁵ That in the good ground, are they which with a good and pure heart, hear the word, and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

²⁸ But he said, "Yea, happy are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."

¹⁵ "If ye love me, keep my commandments,

²¹ He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me: and he shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will show mine own self unto him." ²² Judas said unto him — not Judas Iscariot - "Lord what is the cause that thou wilt show thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, and said unto him, "If a man love me and will keep my sayings, my father also will love him, and we will come unto him, and will dwell with him.

²⁴ Defile not yourselves in any of these things, for with all these things are these nations defiled which I cast out before you:

¹⁸ that they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they do unto their gods, and so should sin against the LORD your God.

¹⁶ For all that do such things and all that do unright, are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

¹⁵ 'Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal — an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman — and putteth it in a secret place.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

² And he did that displeased the LORD, even after the abominations of the Heathen, which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

¹⁴ Thereto, all the rulers of the priests with the people trespassed apace after all manner of abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

⁵⁰ but were proud - And did abominable things before me, wherefore I took them away when I had seen it.

¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baalpeor, and run away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers.

²⁵ and the land is defiled, and I will visit the wickedness thereof upon it. And the land shall spew out her inhabiters.

¹⁹ For there is a lamentable noise heard of Zion: 'O how are we so sore destroyed? O how are we so piteously confounded? We must forsake our own natural country, and we are shot out of our own lodgings.'"

¹³ Again, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as they say unto you, 'Thou art an eater-up of men, and a waster of thy people,'

¹⁷ "O thou son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt upon their own ground, they defiled themselves with their own ways and imaginations: so that in my sight their way was like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.

¹⁶ So then, because thou art between both, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth:

¹⁵ Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, so that even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be plucked out from Israel.

⁶ "'If any soul turn him to enchanters or expounders of tokens and go a whoring after them, I will put my face upon that soul and will destroy him from among his people.

² "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'I am the LORD your God. ³ Wherefore after the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, see that ye do not; neither after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I will bring you, neither walk ye in their ordinances; ⁴ but do after my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: for I am the LORD your God.

²⁶ Keep ye therefore mine ordinances and judgments, and see that ye commit none of these abominations: neither any of you nor any stranger that sojourneth among you ²⁷ — for all these abominations have the men of the land done which were there before you, and the land is defiled -

⁹ But let them keep therefore mine ordinance, lest they lade sin upon them and die therein when they have defiled themselves: for I am the LORD which sanctify them.

¹ Love the LORD thy God and keep his observances, his ordinances, his laws and his commandments always.

⁹ When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou learn not to do after the abominations of these nations. ¹⁰ Let there not be found among you that maketh his son or his daughter go through fire, either a bruterer or a maker of dismal days, or that useth witchcraft, or a sorcerer, ¹¹ or a charmer, or that speaketh with a spirit, or a soothsayer, or that asketh the advice of the dead. ¹² For all that do such things are abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee.