the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Webster's Bible Translation
Leviticus 18
1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I [am] the LORD your God.3 After the doings of the land of Egypt in which ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.4 Ye shall perform my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk in them; I [am] the LORD your God.5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments: which if a man doeth, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.
6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am the LORD.7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she [is] thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness.9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether] born at home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thy own nakedness.11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten by thy father, (she [is] thy sister) thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she [is] thy father's near kinswoman.13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she [is] thy mother's near kinswoman.14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she [is] thy aunt.15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she [is] thy son's wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness.17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; [for] they [are] her near kinswomen: it [is] wickedness.18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her life-[time].
19 Also thou shalt not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.20 Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion.24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)28 That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nations that [were] before you.29 For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people.30 Therefore shall ye keep my ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves in them; I [am] the LORD your God.