| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Yahweh spoke to Moses: " |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am Yahweh your God. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You are to practice My ordinances and you are to keep My statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Keep My statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am Yahweh." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You are not to come near any close relative for sexual intercourse; I am Yahweh. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You are not to shame your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual intercourse with her. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You are not to have sex with your father's wife; it will shame your father. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's, whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You are not to have sexual intercourse with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, because it will shame your family. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father's wife's daughter, who is adopted by your father; she is your sister. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13You are not to have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's close relative. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14You are not to shame your father's brother by coming near his wife to have sexual intercourse; she is your aunt. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; you are not to have sex with her. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother's wife; it will shame your brother. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister's lifetime." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You are not to come near a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife, defiling yourself with her." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21You are not to make any of your children pass through the fire to Molech. Do not profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23You are not to have sexual intercourse with any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable things--not the native or the foreigner who lives among you. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For the men who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable things, and the land has become defiled. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Any person who does any of these detestable practices must be cut off from his people. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30You must keep My instruction to not do any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am Yahweh your God." |
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