Imamat 18:25

18:25 Therefore ¹  the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, ²  so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

Imamat 18:30

18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes ³  that have been done before you, so that you do not ⁴  defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”

Imamat 20:11

20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. ⁵  Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. ⁶ 

Imamat 20:27

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums

20:27 “‘A man or woman who ⁷  has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit ⁸  must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; ⁹  their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

[18:25]  ¹ tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.

[18:25]  ² tn Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

[18:30]  ³ tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”

[18:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “and you will not.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[20:11]  ⁵ sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.

[20:11]  ⁶ tn See the note on v. 9 above.

[20:27]  ⁷ tc Smr, LXX, Syriac, and some Targum mss have the relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who, which”), rather than the MT’s כִּי (ki, “for, because, that”).

[20:27]  ⁸ tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirit” in Lev 19:31 above.

[20:27]  ⁹ tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning, but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (see the note on v. 2 above). Smr and LXX have “you [plural] shall pelt them with stones.”

[20:27]  sn At first glance Lev 20:27 appears to be out of place but, on closer examination, one could argue that it constitutes the back side of an envelope around the case laws in 20:9-21, with Lev 20:6 forming the front of the envelope (note also that execution of mediums and spiritists by stoning in v. 27 is not explicitly stated in v. 6). This creates a chiastic structure: prohibition against mediums and spiritists (vv. 6 and 27), variations of the holiness formula (vv. 7 and 25-26), and exhortations to obey the Lord’s statutes (and judgments; vv. 8 and 22-24). Again, in the middle are the case laws (vv. 9-21).