Leviticus Chapter 18
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Leviticus 18:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Leviticus 18:2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 18:3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.
Leviticus 18:4 You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 18:5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 18:6 “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 18:7 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:8 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.
Leviticus 18:9 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.
Leviticus 18:10 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
Leviticus 18:11 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister.
Leviticus 18:12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative.
Leviticus 18:13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative.
Leviticus 18:14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
Leviticus 18:15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.
Leviticus 18:17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.
Leviticus 18:18 And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.
Leviticus 18:19 “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
Leviticus 18:20 And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.
Leviticus 18:21 You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 18:23 And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.