Leviticus 18:19–30

¹⁹‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as ^klong as she is in her ^lcustomary impurity. ^20mMoreover you shall not lie carnally with your ⁿneighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her. ²¹And you shall not let any of your descendants ^opass through ^pthe fire to ^qMolech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. ²²You shall not lie with ^ra male as with a woman. It is an abomination. ²³Nor shall you mate with any ^sanimal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.

^24t‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; ^ufor by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. ²⁵For ^vthe land is defiled; therefore I ^wvisit ³the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land ^xvomits out its inhabitants. ^26yYou shall therefore ⁴keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you ²⁷(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled), ²⁸lest ^zthe land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. ²⁹For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be ⁵cut off from among their people.

³⁰‘Therefore you shall keep My ⁶ordinance, so ^athat you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: ^bI am the Lord your God.’ ”