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Leviticus

ESV

Chapter 18

¹And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God. ³You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. ⁴You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them: I am the LORD your God. ⁵You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD. ⁶“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD. ⁷You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. ⁸You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness. ⁹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born outside; you shall not uncover their nakedness. ¹⁰You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter; you shall not uncover their nakedness, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. ¹¹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, who is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness. ¹²You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's close relative. ¹³You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's close relative. ¹⁴You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother; that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. ¹⁵You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. ¹⁶You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness. ¹⁷You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are her close relatives; it is depravity. ¹⁸And you shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive. ¹⁹“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. ²⁰And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. ²¹You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. ²²You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. ²³And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman stand before an animal to lie with it; it is perversion. ²⁴“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, ²⁵and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you ²⁷(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean)— ²⁸lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. ²⁹For whoever does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. ³⁰So you shall keep my charge not to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and not to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.”