LEB - Leviticus - 18

18:1  Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

18:2  “Speak to the ⌞Israelites⌟, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.

18:3  You must not ⌞carry out⌟ the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, and you must not ⌞carry out⌟ the practices of the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you; and you must not follow their statutes.

18:4  You must ⌞carry out⌟ my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God.

18:5  And you shall observe my statutes and my regulations ⌞by which the person doing them shall live⌟; I am Yahweh.

18:6  “ ‘⌞None⌟ of you shall approach anyone who is ⌞his close relative⌟ to expose nakedness; I am Yahweh.

18:7  You must not expose your father’s nakedness or your mother’s nakedness—she is your mother; you must not expose her nakedness.

18:8  You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s wife—it is your father’s nakedness.

18:9  As for your sister’s nakedness, whether your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether ⌞born at home⌟ or ⌞born abroad⌟, you must not expose their nakedness.

18:10  As for the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, you must not expose their nakedness, because they are your nakedness.

18:11  As for the nakedness of the daughter of your father’s wife, she is your sister, a relative of your father; you must not expose her nakedness.

18:12  You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is ⌞your father’s close relative⌟.

18:13  You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister, because she is ⌞your mother’s close relative⌟.

18:14  You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not ⌞have sex with⌟ his wife—she is your aunt.

18:15  You must not expose your daughter-in-law’s nakedness; she is your son’s wife; you must not expose her nakedness.

18:16  You must not expose the nakedness of your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.

18:17  You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter; you must not take her as wife to expose her nakedness; they are ⌞close relatives⌟—that is wickedness.

18:18  And you must not take as wife a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her ⌞during⌟ her life.

18:19  “ ‘And you must not ⌞have sex with⌟ a woman to expose her nakedness ⌞during⌟ her menstrual uncleanness.

18:20  And ⌞you must not have sex⌟ with your fellow citizen’s wife, becoming unclean with her.

18:21  “ ‘And you shall not give ⌞any of⌟ your offspring in order to sacrifice them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.

18:22  And you shall not lie with a male as lying ⌞with⌟ a woman; that is a detestable thing.

18:23  And you shall not ⌞have sexual relations⌟ with any animal, becoming unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand ⌞before⌟ an animal to copulate with it—that is a perversion.

18:24  “ ‘You must not make yourself unclean in any of these things, because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these.

18:25  So the land became unclean, and ⌞I have brought the punishment of⌟ its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

18:26  But you (neither the native nor the alien who is dwelling in your midst) shall keep my statutes and my regulations, and you shall not ⌞practice⌟ any of these detestable things

18:27  (because the people of the land, who were ⌞before you⌟, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),

18:28  so that the land will not vomit you out when you make it unclean just as it vomited out the nation that was ⌞before you⌟.

18:29  Indeed, anyone who does any of these detestable things, even those persons who do so shall be cut off from the midst of their people.

18:30  Thus you shall keep my obligation to not do any of the statutes ⌞regarding⌟ the detestable things that they did ⌞before you⌟, so that you will not make yourselves unclean by them; I am Yahweh your God.’ ”