| Lev. 18:1 |
Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, |
| Lev. 18:2 |
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am Jehovah your God. |
| Lev. 18:3 |
You shall not do as [they] do in the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt; and you shall not do as [they] do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, nor shall you walk in their statutes. |
| Lev. 18:4 |
You shall observe My ordinances, and you shall keep My statutes to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God. |
| Lev. 18:5 |
So you shall keep My statutes and My ordinances, by which, if a man does [them,] he will live; I am Jehovah. |
| Lev. 18:6 |
None of you shall approach to any of his close relatives to uncover [their] nakedness; I am Jehovah. |
| Lev. 18:7 |
The nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
| Lev. 18:8 |
The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness. |
| Lev. 18:9 |
The nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter, or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover. |
| Lev. 18:10 |
The nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their [nakedness] is your own nakedness. |
| Lev. 18:11 |
The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten of your father--she is your sister--you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
| Lev. 18:12 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's flesh. |
| Lev. 18:13 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's flesh. |
| Lev. 18:14 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, [that is,] you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. |
| Lev. 18:15 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
| Lev. 18:16 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness. |
| Lev. 18:17 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are [her] flesh; it is wickedness. |
| Lev. 18:18 |
And you shall not take [a woman as] wife in addition to her sister, as a rival to uncover her nakedness while she is alive. |
| Lev. 18:19 |
And you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. |
| Lev. 18:20 |
And you shall not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow countryman to become defiled with her. |
| Lev. 18:21 |
And you shall not give any of your offspring to pass through [the fire] to Molech, and so profane the name of your God; I am Jehovah. |
| Lev. 18:22 |
You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination. |
| Lev. 18:23 |
And you shall not lie with any beast to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down with it; it is confusion. |
| Lev. 18:24 |
Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have defiled themselves. |
| Lev. 18:25 |
Because the land has become defiled, I visited its iniquity upon it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. |
| Lev. 18:26 |
You therefore shall keep My statutes and My ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations, [neither] the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you |
| Lev. 18:27 |
(For the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); |
| Lev. 18:28 |
That the land does not vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation which was before you. |
| Lev. 18:29 |
For all who do any of these abominations, those persons who do [them] shall be cut off from among their people. |
| Lev. 18:30 |
Therefore you shall keep My charge, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and you do not defile yourselves by them; I am Jehovah your God. |