18Leviticus 18

Forbidden Sex

1The Lord told MosesSelect Leviticus 18:1

2to tell the people of Israel: I am the Lord your God!Select Leviticus 18:2

3So don't follow the customs of Egypt where you used to live or those of Canaan where I am bringing you.Select Leviticus 18:3

4I am the Lord your God, and you must obey my teachings.Select Leviticus 18:4

5Obey them and you will live. I am the Lord.Select Leviticus 18:5

6Don't have sex with any of your close relatives,Select Leviticus 18:6

7especially your own mother. This would disgrace your father.Select Leviticus 18:7

8And don't disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.Select Leviticus 18:8

9Don't have sex with your sister or stepsister, whether you grew up together or not.Select Leviticus 18:9

10Don't disgrace yourself by having sex with your granddaughterSelect Leviticus 18:10

11or half sisterSelect Leviticus 18:11

13or a sister of your father or mother.Select Leviticus 18:13

14Don't disgrace your uncle by having sex with his wife.Select Leviticus 18:14

15Don't have sex with your daughter-in-lawSelect Leviticus 18:15

16or sister-in-law.Select Leviticus 18:16

17And don't have sex with the daughter or granddaughter of any woman that you have earlier had sex with. You will be having sex with her closest relatives, and that would make you unclean.Select Leviticus 18:17

18As long as your wife is alive, don't cause trouble for her by taking one of her sisters as a second wife.Select Leviticus 18:18

19When a woman is having her monthly period, she is unclean, so don't have sex with her.Select Leviticus 18:19

20Don't have sex with another man's wife—that would make you unclean.Select Leviticus 18:20

21Don't sacrifice your children on the altar fires to the god Molech. I am the Lord your God, and that would disgrace me.Select Leviticus 18:21

22It is disgusting for a man to have sex with another man.Select Leviticus 18:22

23Anyone who has sex with an animal is unclean.Select Leviticus 18:23

24Don't make yourselves unclean by any of these disgusting practices of those nations that I am forcing out of the land for you. They made themselvesSelect Leviticus 18:24

25and the land so unclean, that I punished the land because of their sins, and I made it vomit them up.Select Leviticus 18:25

27Now don't do these sickening things that make the land filthy. Instead, obey my laws and teachings.Select Leviticus 18:27

28Then the land won't become sick of you and vomit you up, just as it did them.Select Leviticus 18:28

30If any of you do these vulgar, disgusting things, you will be unclean and no longer belong to my people. I am the Lord your God, and I forbid you to follow their sickening way of life.Select Leviticus 18:30