Leviticus 18
18
Laws on Immoral Relations
1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2#Ex 6:7; Lev 11:44Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: I am the Lord your God. 3#Ex 23:24; Lev 20:23After the practices of the land of Egypt, from where you lived, you shall not follow, and after the practices of the land of Canaan, to where I will bring you, you shall not follow; nor shall you walk in their ordinances. 4#Lev 18:2; 18:26You shall follow My decrees and keep My ordinances to walk in them: I am the Lord your God. 5#Eze 20:11; Ro 10:5You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does them, then he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
6#Lev 18:7–19None of you shall approach any of his near relatives to have relations: I am the Lord.
7#Lev 20:11; Eze 22:10You shall not have relations with your father or have relations with your mother. She is your mother. You shall not have relations with her.
8#Lev 20:11; 1Co 5:1You shall not have relations with your father’s wife, for this exposes your father’s nakedness.
9#Lev 20:17; Dt 27:22You shall not have relations with your sister, whether your father’s or mother’s daughter, whether raised in the family or another home.
10You shall not have relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for this exposes your own nakedness.
11You shall not have relations with your father’s wife’s daughter who is raised in your father’s family, for she is your sister.
12#Lev 20:19You shall not have relations with your father’s sister, for she is your father’s relative.
13You shall not have relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative.
14#Lev 20:20You shall not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife for relations; she is your aunt.
15#Lev 20:12; Ge 38:26You shall not have relations with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son’s wife—you shall not have relations with her.
16#Lev 20:21; Dt 25:5You shall not have relations with your brother’s wife, for this exposes your brother’s nakedness.
17#Lev 20:14You shall not have relations with a woman and her daughter, nor shall you have her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, for this exposes the woman’s nakedness. They are all near relatives. It is depravity.
18And you shall not have a woman as a rival wife, who is the sister of your other wife, for this is to expose her nakedness while her sister, your other wife, is still alive.
19#Lev 15:24; 20:18Also you shall not approach a woman to have relations as long as she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
20#Ex 20:14; Lev 20:10Moreover, you shall not have relations with your neighbor’s wife to defile yourself with her.
21#Lev 19:12; 20:2–5; 21:6You shall not let any of your children be offered through the fire to Molek, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
22#Lev 20:13; 1Co 6:9; 1Ti 1:10You shall not lie with a man as one does with a woman. It is an abomination.
23#Ex 22:19; Lev 20:15–16You shall not lie with an animal to defile yourself, nor shall any woman lie with an animal. It is a perversion.
24#Dt 18:12; Lev 18:30Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves. 25#Lev 18:28; Jer 2:7And the land has become defiled; therefore I have punished its iniquity, and the land has vomited out her inhabitants. 26#Lev 18:5But you shall therefore keep My statutes and My decrees, and you shall not commit any of these abominations, either the native citizen or any foreigner who sojourns among you 27(for the people of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled), 28lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
29For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, those persons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people. 30#Lev 20:23Therefore you shall keep My ordinances, that you do not commit any one of these abominable customs which were committed before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.
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Leviticus 18
18
Unlawful Sexual Relations
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, #ch. 11:44; 19:4; 20:7; Ex. 6:6, 7I am the Lord your God. 3#Ezek. 20:7, 8; 23:8 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and #Ex. 23:24; Deut. 12:30, 31you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. 4#ver. 26; ch. 19:19, 37; 20:8, 22; 25:18; Deut. 4:1, 6; 5:1; 6:1; 12:1; Ezek. 20:19 You shall follow my rules#18:4 Or my just decrees; also verse 5 and keep my statutes and walk in them. #[See ver. 2 above]I am the Lord your God. 5#[See ver. 4 above] You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; #Ezek. 20:11, 13, 21; Cited Rom. 10:5; Gal. 3:12; [Luke 10:28]if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
6“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord. 7#For ver. 7-16, see ch. 20:11-21You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8#Deut. 22:30; 27:20; 1 Cor. 5:1; [Gen. 49:4; Amos 2:7]You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. 9#[2 Sam. 13:12; Ezek. 22:11]You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. 10You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. 11You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister. 12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative. 13You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative. 14You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. 15#[Gen. 38:26; Ezek. 22:11]You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16#[Gen. 38:8; Deut. 25:5; Matt. 22:24; Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28]You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness. 17You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. 18And you shall not take a woman as a #[1 Sam. 1:6] rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness #[Gen. 31:50]while her sister is still alive.
19 # [ch. 15:24; 20:18; Ezek. 18:6; 22:10] “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. 20#See Ex. 20:14And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her. 21You shall not give any of your children to #ch. 20:2-5; Deut. 18:10 offer them#18:21 Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire] to #[1 Kgs. 11:7, 33; Acts 7:43] Molech, and so #ch. 19:12; 20:3; 21:6; 22:2, 32; Ezek. 36:20, 22; Mal. 1:12profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. 22#ch. 20:13; [Gen. 19:5; Judg. 19:22; Rom. 1:27; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10; 1 Tim. 1:9, 10]You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. 23#ch. 20:15, 16; Ex. 22:19 And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is #ch. 20:12perversion.
24 # ver. 30; [Matt. 15:19, 20; Mark 7:21-23] “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, #ch. 20:23; [Deut. 18:12]for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25and the #Num. 35:34; Jer. 2:7; Ezek. 36:17 land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land #ch. 20:22vomited out its inhabitants. 26But #See ver. 4, 5 you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the #See ch. 16:29native or the stranger who sojourns among you 27(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30#ch. 22:9 So keep my charge never to practice #ver. 3, 26; ch. 20:23; Deut. 18:9 any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: #See ver. 2I am the Lord your God.”
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