Grave sexual violations judged

Consequences of Profaning Holiness · Leviticus 20

Story guide: A council of elders hears separated, fully clothed adults in a public legal courtyard while protected relatives sit with advocates and a calm animal remains behind a distant fence. The verses preserve the grave sexual prohibitions without reenactment.

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10If a man commits adultery with another man's wife—if he commits adultery with his neighbor's wife—the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

11If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is on them.

12If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood is upon them.

13If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, both of them have done an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is on them.

14If a man takes a woman and her mother, it is depravity. They shall burn him and them with fire, so that there will not be depravity among you.

15If a man has sexual intercourse with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

16If 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 is on them.

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