Unlawful Sexual Relations (LEV 18:1-30)

[18:1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

[18:2] “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God.

[18:3] You 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.

[18:4] You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.

[18:5] You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.

[18:6] “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.

[18:7] You 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.

[18:8] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

[18:9] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.

[18:10] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.

[18:11] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister.

[18:12] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative.

[18:13] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative.

[18:14] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

[18:15] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

[18:16] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

[18:17] You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.

[18:18] And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

[18:19] “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

[18:20] And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.

[18:21] You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

[18:22] You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

[18:23] And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.

[18:24] “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,

[18:25] and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

[18:26] But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you

[18:27] (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),

[18:28] lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

[18:29] For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.

[18:30] So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.”

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