| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'I am the LORD your God. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3'You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4'You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the LORD your God. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5'So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6'None of you shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I am the LORD. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The nakedness of your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10'The nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness is yours. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11'The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born to your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's blood relative. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's blood relative. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother; you shall not approach his wife, she is your aunt. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18'You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19'Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20'You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor's wife, to be defiled with her. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21'You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the LORD. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22'You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23'Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24'Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25'For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30'Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the LORD your God.'" |
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