{"id":5543,"date":"2026-04-06T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:53:07","slug":"leviticus-201-2-then-the-lord-spoke-to-moses-saying-again-you-shall-say-to-the-children-of-israel-whoever-of-the-children-of-israel-or-of-the-strangers-who-sojourn-in-israe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=5543","title":{"rendered":"Leviticus 20:1\u20132: “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, \u2018Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: “Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.\u201d\u2019”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Leviticus 20, God sets out a list of capital offenses. Much of what we find on this list sounds extreme to our twenty-first-century ears. Few, if any, would be willing to insist on capital punishment for every offense listed here. We may insist along with Scripture that the life of a murderer is required, but we stop quickly at the law commanding a teenage son, who in a fit of anger curses his father, to also be put to death. Again, in our enlightened<\/em> view, many may agree to apply capital punishment for someone who causes children to be sacrificed, but would struggle with other seemingly minor sins listed in this chapter. \u2028What we miss at first reading is the fact that God views every<\/em> sin as a capital crime worthy of death.<\/p>\n

In the New Testament it becomes quite clear that sin requires death as Paul writes in Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” This is the bad news<\/em> and the good news<\/em> (the gospel) together in one sweeping sentence. There is one and only one payment for sin, and according to God’s law that payment is death; which is the natural result of a Holy God, who is absolutely perfect, being placed against a very unholy human being, who is in a fallen condition. If that were the end of the discussion, then life would be very bleak indeed. But thankfully it\u2019s not the end.<\/p>\n

“The gift of God” is just that, a gift, freely offered to mankind. How we all need to be reminded of the Grace that came to earth and fulfilled the law, our Savior Jesus Christ. We are no longer married to the law, as Paul goes on to say in the next chapter of Romans. We have been released from the law of death.<\/p>\n

“LORD, we do not ever want to take Your sacrifice for granted. Thank You for Your gift of eternal life today.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Leviticus 20 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses, saying,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever\u00a0he be\u00a0<\/em>of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. 6<\/sup> And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 7<\/sup>\u00a0Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD\u00a0which sanctify you. 9<\/sup>\u00a0For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>upon him. 10<\/sup>\u00a0And the man that committeth adultery with\u00a0another\u00a0<\/em>man\u2019s wife,\u00a0even he\u00a0<\/em>that committeth adultery with his neighbour\u2019s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And the man that lieth with his father\u2019s wife hath uncovered his father\u2019s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>upon them.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>upon them.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>upon them.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is<\/em> wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>upon them.\u00a017<\/sup>And if a man shall take his sister, his father\u2019s daughter, or his mother\u2019s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister\u2019s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.\u00a018<\/sup>And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.\u00a0\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother\u2019s sister, nor of thy father\u2019s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.\u00a0\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And if a man shall lie with his uncle\u2019s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle\u2019s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0And if a man shall take his brother\u2019s wife, it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother\u2019s nakedness; they shall be childless.\u00a0 22<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God, which have separated you from\u00a0other\u00a0<\/em>people.\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.\u00a0\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the\u00a0LORD\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>holy, and have severed you from\u00a0other\u00a0<\/em>people, that ye should be mine. 27<\/sup>\u00a0A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>upon them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Leviticus 20, God sets out a list of capital offenses. Much of what we find on this list sounds extreme to our twenty-first-century ears. Few, if any, would be willing to insist on capital punishment for every offense listed here. We may insist along with Scripture that the life of a murderer is required, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15925,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/15925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}