Punishments for Disobedience
(Leviticus 26:14–39; Deuteronomy 28:15–68)
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him. Deu 21:21Lev 18:21Lev 20:27Lev 24:14Lev 24:232Ch 28:32Ch 33:62Ki 17:17 And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name. Lev 18:21Ezk 23:38-39Ezk 5:11Lev 17:102Co 6:16Ezk 20:39Lev 15:31Num 19:20
And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech, Deu 17:2-5Act 17:301Ki 20:421Sa 3:13-14Deu 13:8Jos 7:12Rev 2:14 then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech. Psa 106:39Exo 20:5Hos 2:13Hos 2:5Jer 3:2Jer 32:39Lev 17:10Lev 17:7
Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people. Lev 19:31Isa 8:191Ch 10:13-14Deu 18:10-14Lev 20:27Exo 34:15-16Ezk 6:9Hos 4:12
Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. Lev 11:44Lev 19:21Pe 1:15-16Eph 1:4Col 3:121Th 4:71Th 4:3Heb 12:14 And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you. Exo 31:13Jas 1:221Th 5:232Th 2:13Lev 19:37Lev 21:8Mat 12:50Mat 5:19
If anyone curses 1his father or mother, he must be put to death. 2 He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him. Exo 21:17Mrk 7:10Deu 27:16Mat 15:4Pro 20:20Pro 30:172Sa 1:16Pro 30:11
Punishments for Sexual Immorality
(Proverbs 5:1–23; 1 Corinthians 5:1–8)
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death. Jhn 8:4-5Deu 22:22-24Deu 5:182Sa 12:13Exo 20:14Lev 18:20Ezk 23:45-47
If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. Deu 27:20Deu 27:231Co 5:1Amo 2:7Lev 18:7-8
If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them. Lev 18:15Gen 38:18Lev 18:23Deu 27:23Gen 38:16
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 1Co 6:9Lev 18:22Jud 1:71Ti 1:10Deu 23:17Rom 1:26-27Gen 19:5Jdg 19:22
If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you. Deu 27:23Lev 18:17Amo 2:7Jos 7:15Jos 7:25Lev 21:9
If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal. Lev 18:23Deu 27:21Exo 22:19
If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. Exo 19:13Exo 21:32Heb 12:20Exo 21:28
If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, 3 it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity. Lev 18:9Deu 27:222Sa 13:12Ezk 22:11Gen 20:12
If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, 4 he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people. Lev 15:24Lev 18:19Ezk 18:6Ezk 22:10
You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity. Lev 18:6Exo 6:20Lev 18:12-30
If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless. Lev 18:14Jer 22:30Job 18:19Luk 1:25Luk 1:7Luk 23:29Psa 109:13
If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless. Lev 18:16Mat 14:3-4
Distinguish between Clean and Unclean
You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. Lev 18:25-28Ezk 36:27Lev 18:4-5Psa 105:45Psa 119:145Psa 119:160Psa 119:20Psa 119:80 You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. Deu 9:5Lev 18:24Lev 18:3Lev 18:30Deu 12:30-31Lev 18:27Jer 10:1-2Psa 78:59
But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since 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 peoples. Deu 14:2Deu 7:6Exo 3:17Exo 3:8Exo 6:8Exo 33:16Lev 20:261Ki 8:53
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you. Deu 14:3-21Lev 11:1-47Act 10:11-15Act 10:28Eph 5:7-11 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. 1Pe 1:15-16Lev 20:7Lev 20:24Lev 19:2Deu 7:6Tit 2:14Deu 26:18-19Deu 14:2
A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’” Lev 19:31Lev 20:61Sa 28:7-9Deu 18:10-12Exo 22:18