AB - Leviticus - 18

18:1  And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

18:2  Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, I am the Lord your God.

18:3  You shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which you dwelt: and according to the devices of the land of Canaan, into which I bring you, you shall not do; and you shall not walk in their ordinances.

18:4  You shall observe My judgments, and shall keep My ordinances, and shall walk in them: I am the Lord your God.

18:5  So you shall keep all My ordinances, and all My judgments, and do them; which if a man shall do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord your God.

18:6  No man shall draw near to any of his near kindred to uncover their nakedness; I am the Lord.

18:7  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother, for she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

18:8  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

18:9  The nakedness of your sister by your father or by your mother, born at home or abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover.

18:10  The nakedness of your son's daughter, or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; because it is your nakedness.

18:11  You shall not uncover the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife; she is your sister by the same father: you shall not uncover her nakedness.

18:12  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister, for she is near akin to your father.

18:13  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is near akin to your mother.

18:14  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, and you shall not go in to his wife; for she is your relation.

18:15  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

18:16  You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

18:17  The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shall you not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, shall you not take, to uncover their nakedness, for they are your kinswomen: it is impiety.

18:18  You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, as a rival, to uncover her nakedness in opposition to her, while she is yet living.

18:19  And you shall not go in to a woman under separation for her uncleanness, to uncover her nakedness.

18:20  And you shall not lie with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

18:21  And you shall not give of your seed to serve a ruler; and you shall not profane My holy name; I am the Lord.

18:22  And you shall not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.

18:23  Neither shall you lie with any quadruped for copulation, to be polluted with it: neither shall a woman present herself before any quadruped to have connexion with it; for it is an abomination.

18:24  Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drove out before you,

18:25  and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.

18:26  And you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and you shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:

18:27  (for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled,)

18:28  and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.

18:29  For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people.

18:30  And you shall keep My ordinances, that you may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time; and you shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your God.