Leviticus 18

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²‘Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, I am Jehovah your God; ³according to the work of the land of Egypt in which ye have dwelt ye do not, and according to the work of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you in, ye do not, and in their statutes ye walk not.

⁴‘My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God; ⁵and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I am Jehovah.

⁶‘None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I am Jehovah.

⁷‘The nakedness of thy father and the nakedness of thy mother thou dost not uncover, she is thy mother; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

⁸‘The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it is the nakedness of thy father.

⁹‘The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born without; thou dost not uncover their nakedness.

¹⁰‘The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter: thou dost not uncover their nakedness; for theirs is thy nakedness.

¹¹‘The nakedness of a daughter of thy father’s wife, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

¹²‘The nakedness of a sister of thy father thou dost not uncover; she is a relation of thy father.

¹³‘The nakedness of thy mother’s sister thou dost not uncover; for she is thy mother’s relation.

¹⁴‘The nakedness of thy father’s brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she is thine aunt.

¹⁵‘The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she is thy son’s wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

¹⁶‘The nakedness of thy brother’s wife thou dost not uncover; it is thy brother’s nakedness.

¹⁷‘The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son’s daughter, and her daughter’s daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they are her relations; it is wickedness.

¹⁸‘And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

¹⁹‘And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

²⁰‘And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

²¹‘And of thy seed thou dost not give to pass over to the Molech; nor dost thou pollute the name of thy God; I am Jehovah.

²²‘And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.

²³‘And with any beast thou dost not give thy copulation, for uncleanness with it; and a woman doth not stand before a beast to lie down with it; confusion it is.

²⁴‘Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you; ²⁵and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants: ²⁶and ye—ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not any of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst, ²⁷(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who are before you, and the land is defiled), ²⁸and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which is before you; ²⁹for any one who doth any of all these abominations—even the persons who are doing so, have been cut off from the midst of their people; ³⁰and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I am Jehovah your God.’

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