| 1 | And the Lord said to Moses, |
| 2 | Say to the Israelites, I am the Lord your God. |
| 3 | You shall not do as was done in the land of Egypt in which you dwelt, nor shall you do as is done in the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes. |
| 4 | You shall do My ordinances and keep My statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. |
| 5 | You shall therefore keep My statutes and My ordinances which, if a man does, he shall live by them. I am the Lord. |
| 6 | None of you shall approach anyone close of kin to him to have sexual relations. I am the Lord. |
| 7 | The nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover; she is your mother; you shall not have intercourse with her. |
| 8 | The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness. |
| 9 | You shall not have intercourse with
or
uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad. |
| 10 | You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; their nakedness you shall not uncover, for they are your own flesh. |
| 11 | You must not have intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter; begotten by your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
| 12 | You shall not have intercourse with your father’s sister; she is your father’s near kinswoman. |
| 13 | You shall not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman. |
| 14 | You shall not have intercourse with your father’s brother’s wife; you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. |
| 15 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not have intercourse with her. |
| 16 | You shall not have intercourse with your brother’s wife; she belongs to your brother. |
| 17 | You shall not marry a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have intercourse; they are [her] near kinswomen; it is wickedness
and
an outrageous offense. |
| 18 | You must not marry a woman in addition to her sister, to be a rival to her, having sexual relations with the second sister when the first one is alive. |
| 19 | Also you shall not have intercourse with a woman during her [menstrual period or similar] uncleanness. |
| 20 | Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her. |
| 21 | You shall not give any of your children to pass through the fire
and
sacrifice them to Molech [the fire god], nor shall you profane the name of your God [by giving it to false gods]. I am the Lord. |
| 22 | You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination. |
| 23 | Neither shall you lie with any beast and defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman yield herself to a beast to lie with it; it is confusion, perversion,
and
degradedly carnal. |
| 24 | Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these things the nations are defiled which I am casting out before you. |
| 25 | And the land is defiled; therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants. |
| 26 | So you shall keep My statutes and My ordinances and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither the native-born nor any stranger who sojourns among you, |
| 27 | For all these abominations have the men of the land done who were before you, and the land is defiled— |
| 28 | [Do none of these things] lest the land spew you out when you defile it as it spewed out the nation that was before you. |
| 29 | Whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from among [his] people. |
| 30 | So keep My charge: do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you and defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God. |
Cross references:
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Leviticus 18:5 : Luke 10:25-28; Rom. 10:4, 5; Gal. 3:12.
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Leviticus 18:22 : I Cor. 6:9, 10.
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