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Laws on Immoral Relations

¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,² "Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, '^(C1)I am the LORD your God.³ 'You shall not do what is ^(C1)done in the land of Egypt where you lived, and you shall not do what is ^(C2)done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes (practices, customs).⁴ 'You are to follow My judgments (precepts, ordinances) and keep My statutes and live by them. ^(C1)I am the LORD your God.⁵ 'So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, ^(C1)by which, if a person keeps them, he shall live; I am the LORD. ^(VR1)

⁶ '^(F1)No one shall approach any blood relative of his ^(F2)to uncover nakedness (have intimate relations). I am the LORD.⁷ '^(C1)You shall not uncover the ^(F1)nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.⁸ '^(C1)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.⁹ 'You shall not uncover the ^(C1)nakedness of your sister, either the daughter of your father or of your mother, whether born at home or born elsewhere.¹⁰ 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; their nakedness you shall not uncover, for they are your own nakedness that is, your own descendants.¹¹ 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter; born to your father, she is your sister.¹² '^(C1)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's blood relative.¹³ 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's blood relative.¹⁴ '^(C1)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother's wife; you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.¹⁵ '^(C1)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.¹⁶ '^(C1)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.¹⁷ '^(C1)You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their nakedness (have intimate relations with them); they are her blood relatives; it is an outrageous offense.¹⁸ 'You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.

¹⁹ '^(C1)Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual ^(C2)impurity and ceremonial uncleanness.²⁰ '^(C1)You shall not have intimate relations with your neighbor's wife, to be defiled with her.²¹ 'You shall not give any of your children ^(C1)to offer them by fire as a sacrifice to Molech the god of the Ammonites, nor shall you ^(C2)profane the name of your God by honoring idols as gods. I am the LORD.²² '^(C1)You shall not lie intimately with a male as one lies with a female; it is repulsive. ^(VR1)23 '^(C1)You shall not have intimate relations with any animal to be defiled with it; nor shall a woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

²⁴ 'Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these ^(C1)the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.²⁵ 'For the land has become defiled; ^(C1)therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, and the land ^(C2)vomits out its inhabitants.²⁶ 'But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments (precepts) and shall not commit any of these repulsive acts, neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives temporarily among you²⁷ (for all these repulsive acts have been done by the men who lived in the land before you, and the land has become defiled);²⁸ do none of these things so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.²⁹ 'For whoever commits any of these repulsive acts, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people excluding them from the atonement made for them.³⁰ 'So keep ^(C1)My command: do not practice any of the repulsive customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them; ^(C2)I am the LORD your God.'"