I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations.

 Leviticus 20:1-27

Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him.

Anyone who has a sexual relationship with his relatives has to be put to death.

You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations.

You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you. You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.

A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.

Verse 6-21 lists the penalties for disobedience to laws in chapters 18 and 19. That such a wide range of offences should be punishable by death seems incredibly harsh to the modern reader. Where we remove wrongdoers from the community by putting them in prison, these laws remove them by death; a kind of moral/judicial surgery.) All - it is worth noting - are in deliberate defiance of God's holy law, or offences against people: none relate to property.

Why?

All of these penalties are set Israelite away from the evil behavior and culture where they will enter.

Christians are living among foreigner culture, we have to set apart from this world, we obey the law in heaven, for we belong to the kingdom of the Lord. 

So the behavior and the image of a Christian is showing among our neighbor. 

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A:宗教的罪                                         2~6

    B:成為聖潔                                     7

        C:謹守律法                                8

             D:家庭婚姻的罪                    9~21

         C’:謹守律法                                22

    B’:成為聖潔                                    23~26

A’:宗教的罪                                        27

聖潔的兩性關係：是聖潔的核心。都是以自我為中心，為圖利自己，才會不顧親人。

不是大家都覺得好的事就都沒關係，道德法律多屬公義，但是我們不是單單如此。有些事可能沒有受害者，而是違背神的屬性，即使兩相情願也是神不允許的，這不是以投票來決定的。因爲神是聖潔的。

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How?

God is my Lord, so I will obey God's command for it is good to me, God's blessing is better than anything on the world.