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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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