Leviticus 18
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1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am the LORD your God. 3Like the doing of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, you shall not do; and like the doing of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do. And in their statutes you shall not walk. 4My judgments you shall do, and my statutes you shall keep, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God. 5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if the man does them, he shall live in them: I am the LORD. 6Any man, any man, to any near kin of his flesh, you shall not approach to uncover nakedness: I am the LORD. 7The nakedness of your father, and the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is the nakedness of your father. 9The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether of a birth of the house or a birth of the outside, you shall not uncover their nakedness. 10The nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, you shall not uncover their nakedness; for they are your nakedness. 11The nakedness of a daughter of your father’s wife, begotten of your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 12The nakedness of your father’s sister you shall not uncover; she is the near kin of your father. 13The nakedness of your mother’s sister you shall not uncover; for she is the near kin of your mother. 14The nakedness of your father’s brother you shall not uncover; to his wife you shall not approach, she is your aunt. 15The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you shall not uncover; she is the wife of your son, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16The nakedness of your brother’s wife you shall not uncover; it is the nakedness of your brother. 17The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you shall not uncover; her son’s daughter, and her daughter’s daughter, you shall not take to uncover her nakedness. Her flesh they are; it is wickedness. 18And a woman to her sister you shall not take, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness upon her in her life. 19And to a woman in the separation of her uncleanness you shall not approach to uncover her nakedness. 20And to the wife of your neighbor you shall not give your lying for copulation, to become unclean with her. 21And of your seed you shall not give to pass over to Molech; and you shall not profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. 22And with a male you shall not lie the lyings of a woman; it is an abomination. 23And with any beast you shall not give your lying, to become unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand before a beast to lie down with it: it is confusion. 24Do not defile yourselves in all these; for in all these the nations were defiled, which I am casting out from before you. 25And the land was defiled, and I visited its iniquity upon it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 26And you shall keep, you, my statutes and my judgments, and you shall not do any of all these abominations, the native-born and the sojourner who sojourns in your midst; 27(for all these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, and the land was defiled;) 28so that the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29For whoever shall do any of all these abominations, the souls doing them shall be cut off from the midst of their people. 30And you shall keep my keeping, so as not to do any of the abominable statutes which were done before you, and you shall not defile yourselves in them: I am the LORD your God.’”
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