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Leviticus 18

1And Yehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am Yehovah your God. 3According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do: and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their statutes. 4My ordinances you shall do, and my statutes you shall keep, to walk in them: I am Yehovah your God. 5You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yehovah. 6None of you shall approach any who are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yehovah. 7The nakedness of your father, even the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover: she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness. 9The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness you shall not uncover. 10The nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness you shall not uncover: for theirs is your own nakedness. 11The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister: she is your father’s near kinswoman. 13You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister: for she is your mother’s near kinswoman. 14You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt. 15You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife: it is your brother’s nakedness. 17You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness. 18And you shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime. 19And you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. 20And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her. 21And you shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through the fire to Molech; nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yehovah. 22You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23And you shall not lie with any beast to defile yourself with it; nor shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down with it: it is confusion. 24Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I cast out from before you are defiled; 25and the land is defiled: therefore I visit its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants. 26You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who sojourns among you 27(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and the land is defiled); 28that the land may not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30Therefore you shall keep my charge, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves in them: I am Yehovah your God.