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Statutes on the Nakedness of Relatives

¹ Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,² "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, '^(C1)I am Yahweh your God.³ 'You shall not do according to what is ^(C1)done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do according to what is ^(C2)done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes.⁴ 'You are to do My judgments and keep My statutes, to walk in them; ^(C1)I am Yahweh your God.⁵ 'So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, ^(C1)which if a man does them, he shall live by them; I am Yahweh.

⁶ 'None of you shall approach any blood relative ^(F1)of his to uncover nakedness; I am Yahweh.⁷ '^(C1)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness.⁸ '^(C1)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.⁹ '^(C1)The nakedness of your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover.¹⁰ 'The nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for ^(F1)their nakedness is yours.¹¹ 'The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, ^(F1)born to your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.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; 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 of her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is ^(F1)lewdness.¹⁸ 'And you shall not ^(F1)marry a woman in addition to ^(F2)her sister ^(F3)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 ^(C2)menstrual impurity.²⁰ '^(C1)And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife, to be defiled with her.²¹ 'And you shall not give any of your seed ^(C1)to pass them over to Molech, nor shall you ^(C2)profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.²² '^(C1)And you shall not lie with a male as ^(F1)one lies with a female; it is an abomination.²³ '^(C1)Also you shall not lie with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to ^(F1)mate with it; it is a perversion.

²⁴ 'So 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 'So the land has become defiled, ^(C1)and I have brought its ^(F1)punishment upon it. And the land ^(C2)has vomited out its inhabitants.²⁶ 'But as for you, you shall keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you²⁷ (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);²⁸ 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 does any of these abominations, ^(F1)those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.³⁰ 'Thus you are to keep ^(C1)My charge, that you do not do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; ^(C2)I am Yahweh your God.'"