18Leviticus 18

1And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,Select Leviticus 18:1

2`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, I am Jehovah your God;Select Leviticus 18:2

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.Select Leviticus 18:3

4`My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God;Select Leviticus 18:4

5and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I am Jehovah.Select Leviticus 18:5

6`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I am Jehovah.Select Leviticus 18:6

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.Select Leviticus 18:7

8`The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it is the nakedness of thy father.Select Leviticus 18:8

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.Select Leviticus 18:9

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.Select Leviticus 18:10

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.Select Leviticus 18:11

12`The nakedness of a sister of thy father thou dost not uncover; she is a relation of thy father.Select Leviticus 18:12

13`The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou dost not uncover; for she is thy mother's relation.Select Leviticus 18:13

14`The nakedness of thy father's brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she is thine aunt.Select Leviticus 18:14

15`The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she is thy son's wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.Select Leviticus 18:15

16`The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it is thy brother's nakedness.Select Leviticus 18:16

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.Select Leviticus 18:17

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

19`And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.Select Leviticus 18:19

20`And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.Select Leviticus 18:20

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.Select Leviticus 18:21

22`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is .Select Leviticus 18:22

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 .Select Leviticus 18:23

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;Select Leviticus 18:24

25and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:Select Leviticus 18:25

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,Select Leviticus 18:26

27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who are before you, and the land is defiled),Select Leviticus 18:27

28and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which is before you;Select Leviticus 18:28

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;Select Leviticus 18:29

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.'Select Leviticus 18:30