18Leviticus 18

1Yahweh said to Moses,Select Leviticus 18:1

2“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.Select Leviticus 18:2

3You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.Select Leviticus 18:3

4You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.Select Leviticus 18:4

5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.Select Leviticus 18:5

6“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.Select Leviticus 18:6

7“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.Select Leviticus 18:7

8“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.Select Leviticus 18:8

9“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.Select Leviticus 18:9

10“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.Select Leviticus 18:10

11“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.Select Leviticus 18:11

12“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister: she is your father’s near kinswoman.Select Leviticus 18:12

13“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister: for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.Select Leviticus 18:13

14“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, you shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.Select Leviticus 18:14

15“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.Select Leviticus 18:15

16“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.Select Leviticus 18:16

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 near kinswomen: it is wickedness.Select Leviticus 18:17

18“‘You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.Select Leviticus 18:18

19“‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.Select Leviticus 18:19

20“‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.Select Leviticus 18:20

21“‘You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.Select Leviticus 18:21

22“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.Select Leviticus 18:22

23“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.Select Leviticus 18:23

24“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.Select Leviticus 18:24

25The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.Select Leviticus 18:25

26You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;Select Leviticus 18:26

27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);Select Leviticus 18:27

28that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.Select Leviticus 18:28

29“‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.Select Leviticus 18:29

30Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’”Select Leviticus 18:30