Leviticus 18
New International Version - Leviticus 18 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627 18:1 The Lord said to Moses, 18:2 'Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the Lord your God. 18:3 You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. 18:4 You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the Lord your God. 18:5 Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the Lord. 18:6 ' 'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the Lord. 18:7 ' 'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her. 18:8 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father. 18:9 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere. 18:10 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you. 18:11 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister. 18:12 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative. 18:13 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative. 18:14 ' 'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt. 18:15 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her. 18:16 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother. 18:17 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness. 18:18 ' 'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living. 18:19 ' 'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period. 18:20 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her. 18:21 ' 'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. 18:22 ' 'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. 18:23 ' 'Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion. 18:24 ' 'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. 18:25 Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 18:26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things, 18:27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 18:28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you. 18:29 ' 'Everyone who does any of these detestable things-such persons must be cut off from their people. 18:30 Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.' '