Unlawful Sexual Relations
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, lI am the Lord your God. 3 mYou shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. 4 You shall follow my rules1 and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; nif a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
6 “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord. 7 You shall not uncover the nakedness oof your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
20 And tyou shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her. 21 You shall not give any of your children uto offer them1 to vMolech, and so wprofane the name of your God: I am the Lord. 22 You shall not lie xwith a male as with a woman; it is an yabomination. 23 And you shall not lie zwith any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is aperversion.
24 “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for bby all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and cthe land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land dvomited out its inhabitants. 26 But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you 27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29 For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 So keep my charge enever to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.”
The Lord Is Holy
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, fYou shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 3 Every one of you shall grevere his mother and his father, and you shall hkeep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 4 Do not turn to idols ior make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.
5 “When you offer a sacrifice of jpeace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it kso that you may be accepted. 6 lIt shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and manything left over until the third day shall be burned up with fire. 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is ntainted; it will not be accepted, 8 and everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has oprofaned what is holy to the Lord, and that person shall be pcut off from his people.
The Lord’s Prayer
1 fNow Jesus1 was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” 2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say:
“Father, ghallowed be your name.
Your hkingdom come.
3 Give us each day our idaily bread,2
4 and jforgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And klead us not into temptation.”
5 And he said to them, l“Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? 8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence3 he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 9 mAnd I tell you, nask, and it will be given to you; oseek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son asks for4 a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, phow much more qwill the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
