1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I, the LORD, am your God.
3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you once lived, nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; do not conform to their customs.
4 My decrees you shall carry out, and my statutes you shall take care to follow. I, the LORD, am your God.
5 Keep, then, my statutes and decrees, for the man who carries them out will find life through them. I am the LORD.
6 "None of you shall approach a close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the LORD.
7 You shall not disgrace your father by having intercourse with your mother. Besides, since she is your own mother, you shall not have intercourse with her.
8 You shall not have intercourse with your father's wife, for that would be a disgrace to your father.
9 You shall not have intercourse with your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in your own household or born elsewhere.
10 You shall not have intercourse with your son's daughter or with your daughter's daughter, for that would be a disgrace to your own family.
11 You shall not have intercourse with the daughter whom your father's wife bore to him, since she, too, is your sister.
12 You shall not have intercourse with your father's sister, since she is your father's relative.
13 You shall not have intercourse with your mother's sister, since she is your mother's relative.
14 You shall not disgrace your father's brother by being intimate with his wife, since she, too, is your aunt.
15 You shall not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, and therefore you shall not disgrace her.
16 You shall not have intercourse with your brother's wife, for that would be a disgrace to your brother.
17 You shall not have intercourse with a woman and also with her daughter, nor shall you marry and have intercourse with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; this would be shameful, because they are related to her.
18 While your wife is still living you shall not marry her sister as her rival; for thus you would disgrace your first wife.
19 "You shall not approach a woman to have intercourse with her while she is unclean from menstruation.
20 You shall not have carnal relations with your neighbor's wife, defiling yourself with her.
21 You shall not offer any of your offspring to be immolated to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the LORD.
22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination.
23 You shall not have carnal relations with an animal, defiling yourself with it; nor shall a woman set herself in front of an animal to mate with it; such things are abhorrent.
24 "Do not defile yourselves by any of these things by which the nations whom I am driving out of your way have defiled themselves.
25 Because their land has become defiled, I am punishing it for its wickedness, by making it vomit out its inhabitants.
26 You, however, whether natives or resident aliens, must keep my statutes and decrees forbidding all such abominations
27 by which the previous inhabitants defiled the land;
28 otherwise the land will vomit you out also for having defiled it, just as it vomited out the nations before you.
29 Everyone who does any of these abominations shall be cut off from among his people.
30 Heed my charge, then, not to defile yourselves by observing the abominable customs that have been observed before you. I, the LORD, am your God."
Versículos relacionados com Leviticus, 17:
Leviticus 17 is a chapter that deals with the holiness of blood and how Israelites must offer sacrifices to the Lord. The selected verses are in order to proximity to the topics covered in Leviticus 17:
Deuteronomy 12:23: "Only be firm in not eating blood, for blood is life, and you will not eat life along with the flesh." This verse reinforces the central idea of Leviticus 17, which is the holiness of blood and the prohibition of consuming it.
Hebrews 9:22: "And almost all things, according to the law, purify themselves with blood; and without bloodshed there is no remission." This verse highlights the importance of sacrifice and bloodshed in the atonement of sins, which is one of the main themes of Leviticus 17.
Acts 15:20: "But write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, prostitution, what is suffocated and blood." This verse shows how Leviticus 17 teachings on blood holiness were applied to first -century Christians.
Leviticus 7:26: "You will not eat any blood, either from a bird or animal, in any of your dwellings." This verse is a repetition of the prohibition of consuming blood found in Leviticus 17, reinforcing the importance of the theme in Mosaic Law.
Leviticus 4:7: "And the priest will be blood on the ends of the altar of aromatic incense, before the Lord, who is on the tent of the congregation, and all the blood of the calf shall shed the base of the Holocaust altar, which is at the door from the congregation tent. " This verse shows how bloodshed was an integral part of the ritual of sacrifice in the tabernacle, as prescribed in Leviticus 17.
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