Keritot 2A

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מתני׳ שלשים ושש כריתות בתורה: הבא על האם, ועל אשת אב, ועל הכלה, הבא על הזכור, ועל הבהמה, ואשה המביאה הבהמה עליה, הבא על אשה ובתה, ואשת איש, הבא על אחותו, ועל אחות אביו, ועל אחות אמו, ועל אחות אשתו, ועל אשת אחיו, ועל אשת אחי אביו, ועל אשת אחי אמו, ועל הנדה.

Mishnah: There are 36 cases in the Torah with regard to which one who performs a prohibited action intentionally is liable to receive excision from the World-to-Come [karet]. They are: One who has sex with his mother; or with the wife of his father, even if she is not his mother; or with his daughter-in-law. The same punishment is imposed on a man who has sex with another male [hazekhur], or who has sex with an animal; and a woman who brings an animal upon her to engage in bestiality. The same punishment is imposed on one who has sex with a woman and her daughter, or with a married woman. The same punishment is imposed on one who has sex with his sister, or with his father’s sister, or with his mother’s sister, or with his wife’s sister, or with his brother’s wife, or with the wife of his father’s brother, or with the wife of his mother’s brother, or with a menstruating woman.

והמגדף, ועובד עבודה זרה, והנותן מזרעו למולך, ובעל אוב, ומחלל שבת, וטמא שאכל קדש, והבא אל המקדש טמא, והאוכל חלב, ודם, ונותר, ופיגול, והשוחט, ומעלה בחוץ,

And these too are liable to receive karet: One who blasphemes the name of Heaven, and one who worships an idol, and one who gives of his children to Molekh (see Leviticus 20:1–5), and a necromancer, and one who desecrates Shabbat. And the same is the punishment of one who is ritually impure who ate sacrificial food; and one who enters the Temple while ritually impure; and one who eats forbidden fat, or consumes blood, or eats meat left over from an offering after the time allotted for its consumption [notar], or eats meat of an offering that was sacrificed with the intent to consume it after its designated time [piggul]; and one who slaughters offerings and offers them up outside the Temple.

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