This seems to be a companion chapter to the prior chapter on unlawful sexual unions. It provides punishments to what we saw before.
Most of them are death penalties. Sex with someone who is on her period just makes you unclean. (phew!)
In modern times, a lot of these are looked down upon and we would consider gross or weird. However, we have largely taken away the criminal penalties, especially the death penalty. Sex with animals might land you in trouble.
Similarly, it covers child sacrifice to Molek. This warrants the death penalty.
Seeking out mediums does not get the death penalty, but rather disfellowship. The medium is supposed to be killed.
Marrying a woman and her mother warrants being thrown in the fire. We have not seen that before.
Marrying your sister warrants disfellowship.
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