{"id":2300,"asset_id":"2612","title":"Damning indictment in light of the contemporary cultural norms mankind has manufactured for themselves \u00a0 Leviticus 19-20...","alias":"damning-indictment-in-light-of-the-contemporary-cultural-norms-mankind-has-manufactured-for-themselves-leviticus-19-20","introtext":"<h1>Damning indictment in light of the contemporary cultural norms mankind has manufactured for themselves &nbsp;<\/h1>\r\n<h1>Leviticus 19-20...<\/h1>\r\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Idolatry Forbidden<\/strong><\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>19<\/strong><\/span> Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">2 \u201cSpeak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, \u2018You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God. 4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves cast metal gods; I am the Lord your God.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">5 \u2018Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. 6 It shall be eaten on the same day you offer it, and on the next day; but what remains until the third day shall be burned with fire. 7 So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean; it will not be accepted. 8 And everyone who eats it will bear the consequences for his guilt, because he has profaned the holy thing of the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from his people.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Various Laws<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">9 \u2018Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">11 \u2018You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. 12 And you shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">13 \u2018You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired worker are not to remain with you all night until morning. 14 You shall not curse a person who is deaf, nor put a stumbling block before a person who is blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">15 \u2018You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not show partiality to the poor nor give preference to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly. 16 You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people; and you are not to [a]jeopardize the [b]life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">17 \u2018You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may certainly rebuke your neighbor, but you are not to incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance, nor hold any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">19 \u2018You are to keep My statutes. You shall not cross-breed two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment of two kinds of material mixed together.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">20 \u2018Now if a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free. 21 He shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord to the doorway of the tent of meeting, a ram as a guilt offering. 22 The priest shall also make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin which he has committed, and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">23 \u2018Now when you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as [c]forbidden. For three years it shall be [d]forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten. 24 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. 25 But in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, so that its yield may increase for you; I am the Lord your God.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">26 \u2018You shall not eat any meat with the blood. You shall not practice divination nor soothsaying. 27 You shall not round off the [e]hairline of your heads, nor trim the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuts in your [f]body for the [g]dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">29 \u2018Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and the land does not become full of outrageous sin. 30 You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the Lord.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">31 \u2018Do not turn to [h]mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">32 \u2018You shall stand up in the presence of the grayheaded and honor [i]elders, and you shall [j]fear your God; I am the Lord.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">33 \u2018When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not [k]do him wrong. 34 The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">35 \u2018You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or volume. 36 You shall have accurate balances, accurate weights, an accurate [l]ephah, and an accurate [m]hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt. 37 So you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them; I am the Lord.\u2019\u201d<\/div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>On Human Sacrifice and Immoralities<\/strong><\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>20<\/strong><\/span> Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 \u201cYou shall also say to the sons of Israel:<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Anyone from the sons of Israel or from the strangers residing in Israel who gives any of his [n]children to Molech, shall certainly be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his [o]children to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name. 4 If the people of the land, however, [p]should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his [q]children to Molech, so as not to put him to death, 5 then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the prostitute with him, by playing the prostitute with Molech.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">6 \u2018As for the person who turns to [r]mediums and to spiritists, to play the prostitute with them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. 7 You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. 8 So you shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">9 \u2018If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall certainly be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and has brought his [s]own death upon himself.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">10 \u2018If there is a man who commits adultery with another man\u2019s wife, one who commits adultery with his friend\u2019s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. 11 If there is a man who sleeps with his father\u2019s wife, he has uncovered his father\u2019s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death, they have brought their [t]own deaths upon themselves. 12 If there is a man who sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed [u]incest, and have brought their [v]own deaths upon themselves. 13 If there is a man who sleeps with a male as those who sleep with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they must be put to death. They have brought their [w]own deaths upon themselves. 14 If there is a man who [x]marries a woman and her mother, it is an outrageous sin; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no such outrageous sin in your midst. 15 If there is a man who has sexual intercourse with an animal, he must be put to death; you shall also kill the animal. 16 If there is a woman who approaches any animal to [y]mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they must be put to death. They have brought their [z]own deaths upon themselves.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">17 \u2018If there is a man who takes his sister, his father\u2019s daughter or his mother\u2019s daughter, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister\u2019s nakedness; he bears his guilt. 18 If there is a man who sleeps with a menstruous woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood; so both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 19 You shall also not uncover the nakedness of your mother\u2019s sister or of your father\u2019s sister, for such a one has uncovered his [aa]blood relative; they will bear their guilt. 20 If there is a man who sleeps with his uncle\u2019s wife, he has uncovered his uncle\u2019s nakedness; they will bear their sin. They will die childless. 21 If there is a man who takes his brother\u2019s wife, it is [ab]detestable; he has uncovered his brother\u2019s nakedness. They will be childless.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">22 \u2018You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to [ac]live will not vomit you out. 23 Furthermore, you shall not [ad]follow the customs of the nation which I am going to drive out before you, because they did all these things; therefore I have felt disgust for them. 24 So I have said to you, \u201cYou are to take possession of their land, and I Myself will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.\u201d I am the Lord your God, who has singled you out from the peoples. 25 You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make [ae]yourselves detestable by animal or by bird, or by anything [af]that crawls on the ground, which I have distinguished for you as unclean. 26 So you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have singled you out from the peoples to be Mine.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">27 \u2018Now a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist [ag]must be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; they have brought their [ah]own deaths upon themselves.\u2019\u201d<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","fulltext":"","state":1,"catid":"8","created":"2026-02-16 14:41:40","created_by":"873","created_by_alias":"","modified":"2026-02-16 14:43:36","modified_by":"873","checked_out":"873","checked_out_time":"2026-02-16 14:41:40","publish_up":"2026-02-16 14:41:40","publish_down":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","images":"{\"image_intro\":\"\",\"float_intro\":\"\",\"image_intro_alt\":\"\",\"image_intro_caption\":\"\",\"image_fulltext\":\"\",\"float_fulltext\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_alt\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_caption\":\"\"}","urls":"{\"urla\":false,\"urlatext\":\"\",\"targeta\":\"\",\"urlb\":false,\"urlbtext\":\"\",\"targetb\":\"\",\"urlc\":false,\"urlctext\":\"\",\"targetc\":\"\"}","attribs":"{\"article_layout\":\"\",\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_tags\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"info_block_position\":\"\",\"info_block_show_title\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_parent_category\":\"\",\"link_parent_category\":\"\",\"show_associations\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"link_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_publish_date\":\"\",\"show_item_navigation\":\"\",\"show_icons\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_hits\":\"\",\"show_noauth\":\"\",\"urls_position\":\"\",\"alternative_readmore\":\"\",\"article_page_title\":\"\",\"show_publishing_options\":\"\",\"show_article_options\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_backend\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_frontend\":\"\"}","version":2,"ordering":"0","metakey":"","metadesc":"","access":"1","hits":"0","metadata":"{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"rights\":\"\",\"xreference\":\"\"}","featured":"1","language":"*","xreference":"","note":""}