Leviticus 20:6
6“If aa person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, bI will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.Leviticus 20:10
Punishments for Sexual Immorality
10“If a cman commits adultery with the wife of ▼▼Hebrew repeats if a man commits adultery with the wife of
his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Leviticus 20:27
27 e“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be fstoned with stones; gtheir blood shall be upon them.”Deuteronomy 5:11
11“‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.Deuteronomy 5:17-21
17 h“‘You shall not murder. ▼▼The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence
18 j“‘And you shall not commit adultery.
19“‘And you shall not steal.
20“‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’
Jeremiah 7:9-10
9 kWill you steal, murder, commit adultery, lswear falsely, mmake offerings to Baal, nand go after other gods that you have not known, 10and then come and stand before me in this house, owhich is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?Ezekiel 22:6-12
6“Behold, pthe princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7Father and mother qare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner rsuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow sare wronged in you. 8 tYou have despised my holy things and uprofaned my Sabbaths. 9 vThere are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you wwho eat on the mountains; xthey commit lewdness in your midst. 10In you ymen uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 zOne commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; aaanother lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; abanother in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. 12In you acthey take bribes to shed blood; adyou take interest and profit ▼▼That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)
and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but afme you have forgotten, declares the Lord God. Zechariah 5:3-4
3Then he said to me, “This is agthe curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who ahsteals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who aiswears falsely ▼▼Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)
shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. 4I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of akhim who swears falsely by my name. And alit shall remain in his house and amconsume it, both timber and stones.”
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