Leviticus 18:1-8 ▼

1 The LORD told Moses,

2 |Tell the Israelis that I am the LORD your God.

3 You are not to do what you used to do in the land of Egypt where you lived. You are not to do what Canaan does, where I'm about to bring you, so that you live according to their statutes.

4 Obey my ordinances and keep my statutes by living by them. I am the LORD your God.

5 Keep my statutes and my ordinances, which a person is to obey in order to live in them. I am the LORD.

6 |A person is not to approach a near blood relative for sexual relations. I am the LORD.

7 |Neither your father's nakedness nor your mother's nakedness is to be exposed. She's your mother, so you are not to have sexual relations with her.

8 |You are not to have sexual relations with your father's wife. It's your own father's nakedness.