Leviticus
18
- The LORD said to Moses,
- "Speak to the Israelites and say to
them: 'I am the LORD your God.
- You must not do as they do in Egypt, where
you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where
I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.
- You must obey my laws and be careful to
follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God.
- Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who
obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
- "'No one is to approach any close relative
to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
- "'Do not dishonor your father by having
sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations
with her.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether
she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
- "'Do not dishonor your father's brother
by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her
son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That
is wickedness.
- "'Do not take your wife's sister as
a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
- "'Do not approach a woman to have sexual
relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.
- "'Do not give any of your children
to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God.
I am the LORD.
- "'Do not lie with a man as one lies
with a woman; that is detestable.
- "'Do not have sexual relations with
an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to
an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
- "'Do not defile yourselves in any of
these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before
you became defiled.
- Even the land was defiled; so I punished
it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
- But you must keep my decrees and my laws.
The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable
things,
- for all these things were done by the people
who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.
- And if you defile the land, it will vomit
you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
- "'Everyone who does any of these detestable
things -- such persons must be cut off from their people.
- Keep my requirements and do not follow any
of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile
yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.'"
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