Lev 20:6-27 | ESV | STEP | If a person turns to mediums and necromancers , whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people .

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. 7 ^cConsecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. 8 ^dKeep my statutes and do them; ^eI am the Lord who sanctifies you. 9 For ^fanyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; ^ghis blood is upon him.

Punishments for Sexual Immorality

10 “If a ^hman 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. 11 ^jIf 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 upon them. 12 ^kIf a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed ^lperversion; their blood is upon them. 13 ^mIf a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 14 ⁿIf a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. 15 ^oIf a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. 16 ^pIf a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

17 ^q“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity. 18 ^rIf a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 19 ^sYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked ^tone’s relative; they shall bear their iniquity. 20 ^uIf a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. 21 ^vIf a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. ^{▼▼Literally menstrual impurity} He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

You Shall Be Holy

22 ^x“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not ^yvomit you out. 23 ^zAnd you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. 24 But ^aaI have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land ^abflowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, ^acwho has separated you from the peoples. 25 ^adYou shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. 26 ^aeYou shall be holy to me, ^affor I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

27 ^ag“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be ^ahstoned with stones; ^aitheir blood shall be upon them.”