Quotes About Law

If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.

If a man commits adultery with another manís wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

If a man lies with his fatherís wife, he has uncovered his fatherís nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

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.

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.

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.

If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.

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.

If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, 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.

If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, 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.

You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing oneís own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

If a man lies with his uncleís wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.

If a man marries his brotherís wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.

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.

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.í”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaronís sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,

He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

Then the LORD said to Moses,

“Say to Aaron, ëFor the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.

No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the offerings made by fire to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.

but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.í”

Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

Then the LORD said to Moses,