Leviticus 18
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1The LORD said to Moses,1[an error occurred while processing this directive]
2"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the LORD your God.2[an error occurred while processing this directive]
3You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.3[an error occurred while processing this directive]
4You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God.4[an error occurred while processing this directive]
5Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.5[an error occurred while processing this directive]
6"'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.6[an error occurred while processing this directive]
7"'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.7[an error occurred while processing this directive]
8"'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.8[an error occurred while processing this directive]
9"'Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.9[an error occurred while processing this directive]
10"'Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you.10[an error occurred while processing this directive]
11"'Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.11[an error occurred while processing this directive]
12"'Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.12[an error occurred while processing this directive]
13"'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.13[an error occurred while processing this directive]
14"'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.14[an error occurred while processing this directive]
15"'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.15[an error occurred while processing this directive]
16"'Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother.16[an error occurred while processing this directive]
17"'Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.17[an error occurred while processing this directive]
18"'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.18[an error occurred while processing this directive]
19"'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.19[an error occurred while processing this directive]
20"'Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.20[an error occurred while processing this directive]
21"'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.21[an error occurred while processing this directive]
22"'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.22[an error occurred while processing this directive]
23"'Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.23[an error occurred while processing this directive]
24"'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.24[an error occurred while processing this directive]
25Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.25[an error occurred while processing this directive]
26But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,26[an error occurred while processing this directive]
27for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.27[an error occurred while processing this directive]
28And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.28[an error occurred while processing this directive]
29"'Everyone who does any of these detestable things--such persons must be cut off from their people.29[an error occurred while processing this directive]
30Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.'"30[an error occurred while processing this directive]
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