Leviticus - 18

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1 A nd Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

2 ` Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, I Jehovah your God;

3 a ccording to the work of the land of Egypt in which ye have dwelt ye do not, and according to the work of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you in, ye do not, and in their statutes ye walk not.

4 ` My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I Jehovah your God;

5 a nd ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I Jehovah.

6 ` None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I Jehovah.

7 ` The nakedness of thy father and the nakedness of thy mother thou dost not uncover, she thy mother; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

8 ` The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it the nakedness of thy father.

9 ` The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born without; thou dost not uncover their nakedness.

10 ` The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter: thou dost not uncover their nakedness; for theirs thy nakedness.

11 ` The nakedness of a daughter of thy father's wife, begotten of thy father, she thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

12 ` The nakedness of a sister of thy father thou dost not uncover; she a relation of thy father.

13 ` The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou dost not uncover; for she thy mother's relation.

14 ` The nakedness of thy father's brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she thine aunt.

15 ` The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she thy son's wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

16 ` The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it thy brother's nakedness.

17 ` The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they her relations; it wickedness.

18 ` And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

19 ` And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

20 ` And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

21 ` And of thy seed thou dost not give to pass over to the Molech; nor dost thou pollute the name of thy God; I Jehovah.

22 ` And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it.

23 ` And with any beast thou dost not give thy copulation, for uncleanness with it; and a woman doth not stand before a beast to lie down with it; confusion it.

24 ` Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;

25 a nd the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:

26 a nd ye -- ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,

27 ( for all these abominations have the men of the land done who before you, and the land is defiled),

28 a nd the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which before you;

29 f or any one who doth of all these abominations -- even the persons who are doing, have been cut off from the midst of their people;

30 a nd ye have kept My charge, so as not to do of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I Jehovah your God.'