| The Lord told Moses to tell the children of Israel, whoever among them or the strangers who dwell with them that gave any of their descendants to Molech, should surely be put to death. We learned in Leviticus 18 that Molech was a Canaanite God associated with the living sacrifice of children in fire. The people were to stone him to death. God said that He would set His face against that man (oppose) and cut him off from his people because he gave some of his descendants to Molech, defiling His sanctuary and profaning His holy name. If the people of the land look the other way when he gives some of his descendants to Molech and don’t kill him, then God said that He would set His face against that man and his family and cut him off from his people. Those who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech would suffer the same fate. God said that He would set His face against the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits to prostitute himself with them. He would also cut him off from his people. God said for the people to consecrate themselves therefore and be holy for He is the Lord their God. He said that the people should keep and perform His statutes because He is the Lord who sanctifies them. Other things that God said included that everyone who cursed his father or mother should surely be put to death for doing so. His blood would be upon him. The man who committed adultery with another man’s wife or his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress should surely be put to death. If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness and both of them should be put to death. Their blood should be upon them. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them should be put to death. They have committed a perversion and their blood should be upon them. If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They should surely be put to death and their blood should be upon them. If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is wickedness. They all should be burned with fire so that there would be no wickedness among the people. If a man mates with an animal, he should surely be put to death and the animal killed. If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, the woman and the animal should be killed and their blood upon them. If a man takes his sister, his father’s or mother’s daughter, and they see each other’s nakedness, it is a wicked thing. They should be cut off in the sight of their people. He uncovered his sister’s nakedness and should bear his guilt. If a man lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. Both of them should be cut off from their people. A man should not uncover the nakedness of his mother’s or father’s sister because that would uncover his near of kin. They should bear their guilt. If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin and shall die childless. If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless. God said that the people should keep all His statutes and judgments and perform them so that the land where He was taking them to dwell would not vomit them out of it. The people were not to walk in the statutes of the nation which God was casting out before them. Those people did all these things and therefore, God abhorred them. God said that the people shall inherit their land and He would give it to them to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. God said, “I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.” The people were to distinguish between clean and unclean animals, between clean and unclean birds. They were not to make themselves abominable by beast, by bird or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, that God had separated from them as unclean. God said that the people should be holy to Him because He, the Lord, is holy and He has separated them from the peoples, that they should be His. A man or woman who is a medium or who has familiar spirits should surely be put to death by stoning them. Their blood shall be upon them. |
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