Leviticus 18

CLV(i) 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. 2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. 3 According to the deeds of the land of Egypt in which you dwelt, you shall not behave. And according to the deeds of the land of Canaan where I am bringing you, you shall not behave; and by their statutes you shall not walk. 4 My judgments shall you keep, and My statutes shall you observe to walk by them:I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. 5 You will observe My statutes and My judgments, for the human who does them will also live by them:I am Yahweh. 6 Not any one of you shall come near any kin of his flesh to expose their nakedness:I am Yahweh. 7 The nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother you shall not expose. She is your mother; you shall not expose her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not expose. It is the nakedness of your father. 9 The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, begotten at home or begotten outside, you shall not expose their nakedness. 10 The nakedness of your son's daughter, or your daughter's daughter, you shall not expose their nakedness, for they are your nakedness. 11 The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, you shall not expose. She is your sister; you shall not expose her nakedness. 12 The nakedness of your father's sister you shall not expose, for she is kin of your father. 13 The nakedness of your mother's sister you shall not expose, for she is the kin of your mother. 14 The nakedness of your father's brother you shall not expose; that is, to his wife you shall not approach; she is your aunt. 15 The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you shall not expose. She is the wife of your son; you shall not expose her nakedness. 16 The nakedness of your brother's wife you shall not expose. She is the nakedness of your brother. 17 The nakedness of both a woman and her daughter you shall not expose. Her son's daughter and her daughter's daughter you shall not take to expose her nakedness. They are kin. This is lewdness. 18 And you shall not take a wife in addition to her sister to distress her, by exposing her nakedness to her in her life time. 19 To a woman in the period of her uncleanness you shall not approach to expose her nakedness. 20 And to the wife of your companion you shall not give your emission of semen, to be unclean with her. 21 You shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through fire to Moloch, for you shall not profane the name of your Elohim:I am Yahweh. 22 With a male you shall not lie as if going to bed with a woman. This is an abhorrence. 23 You shall not give your emission to any beast to be unclean with it. And a woman shall not stand before a beast to copulate with it. This is decadence. 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways. For in all of these the nations which I am dismissing before your face are defiled. 25 Since the land is unclean I shall visit its depravity on it, and the land shall vomit out its dwellers. 26 As for you, you will observe My statutes and My judgments, and not do any of these abhorrences, either the native or the sojourner sojourning in your mids. 27 (for the men of the land who were before you have done all these abhorrences, and the land is unclean), 28 so that the land shall not vomit you out when you defile it, just as it vomited out the nations which were before you. 29 For anyone who shall do any of these abhorrences, the souls doing them will be cut off from among their people. 30 Hence you will keep My charge by no means to do any of the abhorrent habitual statutes which were practiced before you so that you may not defile yourselves by them:I, Yahweh, am your Elohim.