Leviticus 20:1

Leviticus 20:1 says,  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  Verse two adds, Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.  When God told Moses to tell the people of Israel this again, or repeat what had already been said before, it just emphasized the importance of what God had to say.  When God tells us something once, it should be enough, but He often has to tell us more than once to get us to listen.  In this case, the people of Israel were warned again not ot sacrifice their children to Moloch, and if they did, they were to be stoned.  Verse three continues, And 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.  God said that He would cut the man who did this off from Him because this would defile God's sanctuary.  We today quite often sacrifice our unborn children to the god of self-desire, and I do not believe that God has changed His mind about such actions.  Verse four states, And 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:  Verse five adds, Then 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.  God said that if the people didn't hold the person who did this accountable, that God Himself would do so.  God has not changed, and neither has His word.  Verse six continues, 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.  Then, there is another warning against following after witchcraft.  God said He would turn His face against anyone who did this.  We cannot follow God and at the same time put our faith in anything that is contrary to His will.  Verse seven declares, Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.  Then verse eight adds, And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.  God told the people of Israel to sanctify themselves, or to set themselves apart from the world's rules, and to follow His rules.  They were to be made holy because of their relationship to God and their obedience to Him.  We today as followers of Christ are to be set apart spiritually from the world and are made holy, or acceptable to God, because of our faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord.  Verse nine continues, For 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 shall be upon him.  Being disrespectful to parents was considered a sin worthy of death.  We might have a much smaller population today if we put to death all those who disrespect their parents, and this is a life long commandment, and not just for the time that we are young children.  We are to respect our parents as long as they live.  Verse ten states, And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.  A man and woman who committed adultery were to both be put to death.  Again, our population would shrink today if we carried out this command, though we must remember that these commands were to God's people.  We cannot live by the standards of the rest of the world.  Verse eleven adds, And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.  Verse twelve continues, And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.  This was another warning against incestuous relationships, and if they occurred, the people involved were to be put to death.  Verse thirteen concludes, If 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 shall be upon them.  Having sex with an animal was forbidden, and though we might think this was unnecessary to say, evidently it occurred even then.