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Leviticus 18

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18 ‎(1) the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ‎(2) Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: I the LORD am your God. ‎(3) You shall not copy the practices of the land of Egypt where you dwelt, or of the land of Canaan to which I am taking you; nor shall you follow their laws. ‎(4) My rules alone shall you observe, and faithfully follow My laws: I the LORD am your God. ‎(5) You shall keep My laws and My rules, by the pursuit of which human beings shall live: I am the LORD. ‎(6) None of you men shall come near anyone of his own flesh to uncover nakedness: I am the LORD. ‎(7) Your father’s nakedness, that is, the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover; she is your mother—you shall not uncover her nakedness. ‎(8) Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father. ‎(9) The nakedness of your sister—your father’s daughter or your mother’s, whether born into the household or outside—do not uncover their nakedness. ‎(10) The nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter—do not uncover their nakedness; for their nakedness is yours. ‎(11) The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, who was born into your father’s household—she is your sister; do not uncover her nakedness. ‎(12) Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh. ‎(13) Do not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister; for she is your mother’s flesh. ‎(14) Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother: do not approach his wife; she is your aunt. ‎(15) Do not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. ‎(16) Do not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is the nakedness of your brother. ‎(17) Do not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; nor shall you take [into your household as a wife] her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and uncover her nakedness: they are kindred; it is depravity. ‎(18) Do not take [into your household as a wife] a woman as a rival to her sister and uncover her nakedness in the other’s lifetime. ‎(19) Do not come near a woman during her menstrual period of impurity to uncover her nakedness. ‎(20) Do not have carnal relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her. ‎(21) Do not allow any of your offspring to be offered up to Molech, and do not profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. ‎(22) Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abhorrence. ‎(23) Do not have carnal relations with any beast and defile yourself thereby. Likewise for a woman: she shall not lend herself to a beast to mate with it; it is perversion. ‎(24) Do not defile yourselves in any of those ways, for it is by such that the nations that I am casting out before you defiled themselves. ‎(25) Thus the land became defiled; and I called it to account for its iniquity, and the land spewed out its inhabitants. ‎(26) But you must keep My laws and My rules, and you must not do any of those abhorrent things, neither the citizen nor the stranger who resides among you; ‎(27) for all those abhorrent things were done by the people who were in the land before you, and the land became defiled. ‎(28) So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you. ‎(29) All who do any of those abhorrent things—such persons shall be cut off from their people. ‎(30) You shall keep My charge not to engage in any of the abhorrent practices that were carried on before you, and you shall not defile yourselves through them: I the LORD am your God.