1 T he Lord said to Moses,

2 “ Say to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord your God.

3 D o not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived. And do not do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you. Do not follow their laws.

4 Y ou are to do what I say and keep My Laws and live by them. I am the Lord your God.

5 S o keep My Laws and do what I say. If a man obeys them, My Laws will be life for him. I am the Lord.

6 ‘ You should not go near a person of your own family to have sex. I am the Lord.

7 D o not put your father to shame by taking the clothes off your mother. She is your mother. Do not take her clothes off.

8 D o not take the clothes off your father’s wife. Her body is for your father.

9 D o not take the clothes off your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, if she is born at home or away from home.

10 D o not take the clothes off your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter. For they are of your own family.

11 D o not take the clothes off your father’s wife’s daughter, born to your father. She is your sister.

12 D o not take the clothes off your father’s sister. She is of your father’s own family.

13 D o not take the clothes off your mother’s sister. She is of your mother’s own family.

14 D o not put your father’s brother to shame. Do not go near to take the clothes off his wife. She is of your family.

15 D o not take the clothes off your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. Do not take her clothes off.

16 D o not take the clothes off your brother’s wife. Her body is for your brother.

17 D o not take the clothes off a woman and her daughter. And do not take the clothes off her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter. They are of her own family. It is sin.

18 W hile your wife is still living do not marry her sister making her as important to you. Do not take off her sister’s clothes.

19 ‘ And you are not to go near a woman to take off her clothes during the time when she has a flow of blood.

20 D o not have sex with your neighbor’s wife. You would be unclean.

21 D o not give any of your children as a gift on an altar to the false god Molech. Do not put the name of your God to shame. I am the Lord.

22 D o not lie with a man as one lies with a woman. It is a sinful thing.

23 D o not have sex with any animal, or you will be unclean. And no woman should give herself to an animal to lie with it. It is a sin.

24 ‘ Do not allow yourself to sin in any of these ways. For by doing all these things the nations that I am driving out in front of you became unclean.

25 F or the land is unclean. So I have punished its sin. The land has spit out its people.

26 B ut as for you, you are to keep My Laws and do what I have decided. Do not do any of these sinful things, not you or the man who lives among you from another land.

27 F or the men who have lived in the land before you have done all of these sinful things. The land is unclean.

28 D o none of these things or the land will spit you out when you make it sinful, as it has spit out the nation that was before you.

29 W hoever does any of these sinful things will be cut off from his people.

30 S o do what I say. Do not do any of these sinful things that were done before you. Do not make yourselves sin by doing them. I am the Lord your God.’”