Unlawful Sexual Relations
1 The Lord told Moses
2 to say to the people of Israel, “I am the Lord your God.
3 Do not follow the practices of the people of Egypt, where you once lived, or of the people in the land of Canaan, where I am now taking you.
4 Obey my laws and do what I command. I am the Lord your God.
5 Follow the practices and the laws that I give you; you will save your life by doing so. I am the Lord.”
6 The Lord gave the following regulations. Do not have sexual intercourse with any of your relatives.
7 Do not disgrace your father by having intercourse with your mother. You must not disgrace your own mother.
8 Do not disgrace your father by having intercourse with any of his other wives.
9 Do not have intercourse with your sister or your stepsister, whether or not she was brought up in the same house with you.
10 Do not have intercourse with your granddaughter; that would be a disgrace to you.
11 Do not have intercourse with a half sister; she, too, is your sister.
12-13 Do not have intercourse with an aunt, whether she is your father's sister or your mother's sister.
14 Do not have intercourse with your uncle's wife; she, too, is your aunt.
15 Do not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law
16 or with your brother's wife.
17 Do not have intercourse with the daughter or granddaughter of a woman with whom you have had intercourse; they may be related to you, and that would be incest.
18 Do not take your wife's sister as one of your wives, as long as your wife is living.
19 Do not have intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, because she is ritually unclean.
20 Do not have intercourse with another man's wife; that would make you ritually unclean.
21 Do not hand over any of your children to be used in the worship of the god Molech, because that would bring disgrace on the name of God, the Lord.
22 No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.
23 No man or woman is to have sexual relations with an animal; that perversion makes you ritually unclean.
24 Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these acts, for that is how the pagans made themselves unclean, those pagans who lived in the land before you and whom the Lord is driving out so that you can go in.
25 Their actions made the land unclean, and so the Lord is punishing the land and making it reject the people who lived there.
26-27 They did all these disgusting things and made the land unclean, but you must not do them. All of you, whether Israelites or foreigners living with you, must keep the Lord's laws and commands,
28 and then the land will not reject you, as it rejected the pagans who lived there before you.
29 You know that whoever does any of these disgusting things will no longer be considered one of God's people.
30 And the Lord said, “Obey the commands I give and do not follow the practices of the people who lived in the land before you, and do not make yourselves unclean by doing any of these things. I am the Lord your God.”
Luke 19:28-44
The Triumphal Entry
28 After Jesus said this, he went on in front of them toward Jerusalem.
29 As he came near Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples ahead
30 with these instructions: “Go to the village there ahead of you; as you go in, you will find a colt tied up that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.
31 If someone asks you why you are untying it, tell him that the Master needs it.”
32 They went on their way and found everything just as Jesus had told them.
33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying it?”
34 “The Master needs it,” they answered,
35 and they took the colt to Jesus. Then they threw their cloaks over the animal and helped Jesus get on.
36 As he rode on, people spread their cloaks on the road.
37 When he came near Jerusalem, at the place where the road went down the Mount of Olives, the large crowd of his disciples began to thank God and praise him in loud voices for all the great things that they had seen:
38 “God bless the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory to God!”
39 Then some of the Pharisees in the crowd spoke to Jesus. “Teacher,” they said, “command your disciples to be quiet!”
40 Jesus answered, “I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones themselves will start shouting.”
41 He came closer to the city, and when he saw it, he wept over it,
42 saying, “If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!
43 The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.
44 They will completely destroy you and the people within your walls; not a single stone will they leave in its place, because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you!”
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