Leviticus 18:19–30

¹⁹“ ‘Do not make love to a woman during her monthly period. She is not “clean” at that time.

²⁰“ ‘Do not have sex with your neighbor’s wife. That would make you “unclean.”

²¹“ ‘Do not hand over any of your children to be sacrificed to the god Molech. That would be treating my name as if it were not holy. I am the Lord your God.

²²“ ‘Do not have sex with a man as you would have sex with a woman. I hate that.

²³“ ‘Do not have sex with an animal. Do not make yourself “unclean” by doing that. A woman must not offer herself to an animal to have sex with it. That is a twisted use of sex.

²⁴“ ‘Do not make yourselves “unclean” in any of those ways. That is how other nations became “unclean.” So I am going to drive those nations out of the land to make room for you. ²⁵Even their land was not “clean.” So I punished it because of its sin. The land itself threw out the people who lived there.

²⁶“ ‘But you must keep my rules and my laws. You must not do any of the things I hate. It does not matter whether you are Israelites or outsiders.

²⁷“ ‘All of those things were done by the people who lived in the land before you. That is how the land became “unclean.” ²⁸If you make the land “unclean,” it will throw you out. It will get rid of you just as it got rid of the nations that were there before you.

²⁹“ ‘Suppose you do any of the things I hate. Then you must be cut off from your people.

³⁰“ ‘Do exactly what I require. When you arrive in Canaan, do not follow any of the practices of its people. I hate the things they do. Do not make yourselves “unclean” by doing them. I am the Lord your God.’ ”