Leviticus 18

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

²Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God .

³You 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 .

⁴You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God .

⁵You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules ; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.

⁶None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness . I am the Lord.

⁷You 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 .

⁸You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife ; it is your father’s nakedness .

⁹You 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 .

¹⁰You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter , for their nakedness is your own nakedness .

¹¹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter , brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister .

¹²You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister ; she is your father’s relative .

¹³You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister , for she is your mother’s relative .

¹⁴You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother , that is, 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 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 .

¹⁸And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister , uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive .

¹⁹You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness .

²⁰And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.

²¹You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech , and so profane the name of your God : I am the Lord.

²²You shall not lie with a male as with a woman ; it is an abomination .

²³And 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 .

²⁴Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things , for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean ,

²⁵and the land became unclean , so that I punished its iniquity , and the land vomited out its inhabitants .

²⁶But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations , either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you

²⁷(for the people of the land , who were before you, did all of these abominations , so that the land became unclean ),

²⁸lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean , as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

²⁹For everyone who does any of these abominations , the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people .

³⁰So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God .