Lv 18:1Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lv 18:2Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am Jehovah your God.
Lv 18:3You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt; and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, nor shall you walk in their statutes.
Lv 18:4You shall observe My ordinances, and you shall keep My statutes to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God.
Lv 18:5So you shall keep My statutes and My ordinances, by which, if a man does them, he will live; I am Jehovah.
Lv 18:6None of you shall approach to any of his close relatives to uncover their nakedness; I am Jehovah.
Lv 18:7The nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Lv 18:8The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.
Lv 18:9The nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter, or your mother’s daughter, whether born at home or born abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
Lv 18:10The nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
Lv 18:11The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of your father — she is your sister — you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Lv 18:12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.
Lv 18:13You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s flesh.
Lv 18:14You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
Lv 18:15You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Lv 18:16You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.
Lv 18:17You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are her flesh; it is wickedness.
Lv 18:18And you shall not take a woman as wife in addition to her sister, as a rival to uncover her nakedness while she is alive.
Lv 18:19And you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
Lv 18:20And you shall not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow countryman to become defiled with her.
Lv 18:21And you shall not give any of your offspring to pass through the fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God; I am Jehovah.
Lv 18:22You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination.
Lv 18:23And you shall not lie with any beast to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down with it; it is confusion.
Lv 18:24Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.
Lv 18:25Because the land has become defiled, I visited its iniquity upon it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
Lv 18:26You therefore shall keep My statutes and My ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you
Lv 18:27(For the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);
Lv 18:28That the land does not vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation which was before you.
Lv 18:29For all who do any of these abominations, those persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lv 18:30Therefore you shall keep My charge, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and you do not defile yourselves by them; I am Jehovah your God.
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