Monday, May 10, 2010

Leviticus 19-20

God lays out a laundry list of laws. A lot of them are not new like honor your mother and father and do not have other gods. He also repeats the laws from earlier in Leviticus, I guess to nail down how important it is to follow these laws or to highlight the really important ones.

Leviticus 20 lays out the punishments for sinning, and the punishments deal mostly with the incest described in detail in Leviticus 18 (also if you curse your parents, you're put to death!). Basically if you sleep with someone that you shouldn't be, like a family member or a friend's wife, you're both put to death. The method of death isn't specified for most of them, but if a man marries both a woman and her mother, they are to all be burned in a fire. If a man marries his sister, then they don't die but are exiled until the sin is atoned for (That's it?). Same with having sexual relations with a woman on her period. If you have sexual relations with your aunt or marry your brother's wife, you're held responsible and die childless. Not sure why having sexual relations with your mother-in-law ends in death, but you only die childless if you have relations with your aunt.

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