61 passages · Humanity
Two angels arrive at Sodom and Lot insists they stay with him. The men of the city surround the house demanding the visitors, and Lot offers his daughters instead. The angels pull him in and strike the crowd with blindness.
Shechem assaults Dinah, then wants her as his wife. His father Hamor asks Jacob's family to intermarry and settle among them, and Shechem offers any price.
Potiphar's wife repeatedly urges Joseph to sleep with her, and he refuses, saying it would be a sin against God. When she grabs his cloak, he flees, and she uses the cloak to accuse him falsely, so he is imprisoned.
A man who seduces an unengaged virgin must pay the bridal price. The passage also names sorcery, bestiality, and sacrificing to other gods as capital offenses.
A woman who bears a son is unclean for seven days and then remains in purification for thirty-three more. The son is circumcised on the eighth day. After a daughter, the periods are fourteen days and sixty-six days.
A person with a swelling, rash, or bright spot is brought to the priest, who examines the skin and hair. If unclear, he isolates the person for seven days, then re-examines to declare the person clean or unclean.
A white swelling with white hair and raw flesh marks a chronic condition, and the priest declares the person unclean. If the disease covers the whole body and turns white, the person is declared clean.
If a white swelling or reddish-white spot appears where a boil healed, the priest checks it. If it is deeper than the skin with white hair or is spreading, it is unclean, but a stable spot is only a scar.
When a burn turns reddish-white or white, the priest examines it in the same way. White hair and depth mean it is unclean, and a spot that does not spread is only a scar from the burn.
An outbreak on the head or beard is judged by whether it is deeper than the skin and has thin yellow hair. The person shaves except the affected area and is isolated, and the priest checks after seven days.
Dull white spots on the skin are a harmless rash and the person is clean. A bald man is also clean, but a reddish-white sore on a bald head marks an infectious disease.
A person with the infectious disease wears torn clothes, lets his hair hang loose, covers his lower face, and calls out 'Unclean!' He lives alone outside the camp as long as the disease lasts.
Green or red marks in wool, linen, or leather are shown to the priest and the item is isolated for seven days. If the mark has spread, it is a persistent mildew and the item is burned.
If the mark has not spread, the item is washed and isolated a further seven days. If it fades, the spot is cut out, and if it reappears the item is burned, while a clean item is washed again and declared clean.
A priest examines the healed person outside the camp. Two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop are used: one bird is killed over water, and the live bird is dipped in the blood and set free. The person then washes and shaves, and waits seven days.
When the Israelites are in Canaan and the LORD puts mildew in a house, the owner tells the priest. The priest has the house emptied and inspected, and closes it for seven days. Contaminated stones and plaster are removed, and a house where it keeps spreading is torn down.
If the mildew does not return after the house is re-plastered, the priest declares it clean. He purifies it with the same ritual of two birds, cedar, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
A man with a bodily discharge is unclean, and so are his bed, seat, and anything he touches. People who touch these must wash and stay unclean until evening. After healing he waits seven days and brings two birds on the eighth day.
A man who has an emission of semen bathes and is unclean until evening. The same applies to clothing it touches, and to a couple who lie together.
A woman is unclean for seven days during her menstrual period, and so is anything she lies or sits on. Anyone touching those things must wash and stays unclean until evening.
A woman with a discharge of blood beyond her usual period is unclean, along with what she lies on or sits on. After it ends she waits seven days and on the eighth brings two birds for a sin and a burnt offering.
This is a list of forbidden sexual relationships within the family, such as with a parent, sibling, grandchild, aunt, daughter-in-law, brother's wife, or both a woman and her daughter.
The LORD forbids sex during a woman's period, adultery, giving children to Molech, sex between men, and sex with animals. These acts are said to defile those who do them.
The LORD warns that the nations he is driving out defiled the land through these acts, and the land will vomit out the Israelites if they do the same. They must keep his charge and avoid these customs.
Cursing one's parents is punishable by death. So are adultery, relations with a father's wife or daughter-in-law, and sex between men.
A man who marries both a woman and her mother is to be burned with them. Relations with an animal, by a man or a woman, bring death for the person and the animal.
This section covers relations with a sister, a menstruating woman, an aunt, an uncle's wife, or a brother's wife. The penalties include being cut off from the people or remaining childless.
At Shittim, Israelite men engage in sexual immorality with Moabite women and join in sacrifices to their gods. God's anger burns, and He orders that the leaders be executed and the guilty put to death.
If a man accuses his new wife of not being a virgin, her parents present evidence to the elders. If the charge is false, he is fined and cannot divorce her; if true, she is stoned.
Moses gives laws on adultery, on a betrothed woman assaulted in the city or in the open country, on rape of an unbetrothed woman, and on a man marrying his father's wife.