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Leviticus 18
1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, I am Yahweh your God.3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein you dwelt, you shall not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you, you shall not do; neither shall you walk in their statutes.4 My ordinances you shall do, and my statutes you shall keep, to walk therein: I am Yahweh your God.5 You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances; which if man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.
6 Any man shall not have sex with anyone that is near of kin to him: I am Yahweh.7 The nakedness of your father, even the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover. She is your mother, you shall not have sex with her.8 You shall not have sex with your father's wife, it is your father's nakedness.9 With your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, you shall not have sex with them.10 You shall not have sex with your son's daughter, or with your daughter's daughter: for theirs is your own nakedness.11 You shall not have sex with your father's wife's daughter, begotten of your father, she is your sister.12 You shall not have sex with your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.13 You shall not have sex with your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.14 You shall not have sex with your father's brother, you shall not have sex with his wife: she is your aunt.15 You shall not have sex with your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not have sex with her.16 You shall not have sex with your brother's wife.17 You shall not have sex with a woman and her daughter; you shall not have sex with her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter; they are her flesh: it is wickedness.18 And you shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to have sex with her, besides the other in her life-time.
19 And you shall not have sex with a woman, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.20 And you shall not have sex with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.21 And you shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.22 You shall not have sex with a man: it is disgusting.23 And you shall not have sex with any animal and defile yourself therewith; neither shall any woman have sex with an animal: it is perverted.24 Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations have been defiled which I am casting out from before you;25 And the land is defiled: therefore I visit the iniquity thereof on it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants.26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these disgusting things; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourns among you;27 for the men that were before you in the land have done all these disgusting things, and the land is defiled;28 that the land does not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it is vomiting out the nation that was before you.29 For whoever shall do any of these disgusting things, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.30 Therefore you shall keep my charge, that you don't do any of these disgusting customs, which were done before you, and that you don't defile yourselves therein: I am Yahweh your God.
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