God said that sacrifices have to be made at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, not in the camp or outside or it, or they will be guilty of bloodshed and will be an outcast. They also can't sacrifice to any others or drink the blood. “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.” Also, if you eat an animal that's already dead, then that person will be unclean until the evening when he washes his clothes and bathes.
Now God turns to unlawful sexual relations and tells the Israelites that they have to obey God's laws and not the laws of Egypt. There is a whole laundry list of who you cannot have sexual relations with, including close relatives - mother, mother-in-law, sister, daughter-in-law, daughter, cousin, aunt, sister-in-law, threesomes with two relatives, neighbor's wife, wife's sister, and any woman during her period. I'm not sure how verse 21 fits in because it says don't sacrifice any of your children to Molech. Then it says, do not lie with another man or an animal. “Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants...And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you." Wow even the land was defiled! God means business here, and I'm sure they have probably heard stories of previous nations.
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