The Lord
spoke to Moses: “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,
‘I am the Lord your God! You must not do the deeds
they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as
they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; and you must
not walk in their statutes. You must observe My
regulations and you must be sure to walk in My statutes. I am the Lord
your God and you shall keep My statutes and My
regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.
No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual
intercourse with her. I am the Lord. You must not expose
your father’s nakedness by having sexual intercourse with your mother. She is
your mother; you must not have intercourse with her. You
must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife; she is your father’s
nakedness.
“ ‘You must not have
sexual intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or
your mother’s daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born
outside it, whether you grew up together or not; you must not have sexual intercourse
with either of them. You must not expose the nakedness
of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual intercourse
with them, because they are your own nakedness. You must
not have sexual intercourse with the daughter of your father’s wife born of
your father; she is your sister. You must not have intercourse with her. You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s
sister; she is your father’s flesh. You must not have
sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh. You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s
brother; you must not approach his wife to have sexual intercourse with her.
She is your aunt. You must not have sexual intercourse
with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have
intercourse with her. You must not have sexual
intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness. You must not have sexual intercourse with both a woman
and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her
daughter’s daughter to have intercourse with them. They are closely related to
her – it is lewdness. You must not take a woman in
marriage and then while she is still alive marry her sister as a concubine, to
have sexual intercourse with her. You must not approach
a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her. You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your
fellow citizen to become unclean with her. You must not
give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane
the name of your God. I am the Lord!
“ ‘You must not have
sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it
is a detestable act. You must not have sexual
intercourse with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not
stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; it is a perversion. Do
not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about
to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things. That is why the land has become unclean and I have brought
the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its
inhabitants. You yourselves must obey My statutes and My
regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen
and the resident foreigner in your midst, for the people
who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land
has become unclean. So do not make the land vomit you
out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were
before you. For if anyone does any of these
abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their
people. You must obey My charge to not practice any of
the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not
defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’ ”
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