Leviticus 18
18
1The Lord told Moses, 2“Tell the Israelites: I am the Lord your God. 3Don't follow the ways of Egypt where you used to live, and don't follow the ways of Canaan where I'm going to take you. Don't adopt their practices. 4Do what I tell you and keep my rules. I am the Lord your God. 5If you keep my rules and do what I tell you, you will live. I am the Lord.
6Don't have sex with a close relative. 7Don't shame your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother; don't have sex with her. 8Don't have sex with any of your father's wives and shame your father. 9Don't have sex with your sister,#18:9. This clearly includes a half-sister or a step-sister. whether she's your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, or whether she was born in the same house as you or somewhere else. 10Don't have sex with your granddaughter, your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, because that would be a shameful thing for you. 11Don't have sex with the daughter of any of your father's wives or the daughter of your father. She is your sister. 12Don't have sex with your father's sister. She is a close relative of your father. 13Don't have sex with your mother's sister. She is a close relative of your mother. 14Don't bring shame on your uncle by having sex with his wife. She is your aunt. 15Don't have sex with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. Don't have sex with her. 16Don't have sex with your brother's wife and bring shame on your brother. 17Don't have sex with both a woman and her daughter. Don't have sex with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter. They are her close relatives. That is something I loathe. 18Don't marry your wife's sister and have sex with her while your wife is still alive. They will be hostile wives to one other. 19Don't have sex with a woman during the time she is unclean because of her period. 20Don't commit any sex act with any other man's wife. This would pollute you and make you unclean.
21Don't give any of your children as a human sacrifice to Molech,#18:21. Molech was a pagan god. The sacrifices were of children placed alive into the metal idols hands which had been heated with fire. for you must not disgrace the character of your God. I am the Lord.
22Don't have sex with a man as with a woman. That is something disgusting. 23Don't have sex with any animal. This would pollute you and make you unclean. 24A woman must not give herself to an animal to have sex with it. That is something disgusting. Don't pollute yourselves and make yourselves unclean by doing anything like this. That's the reason I'm expelling these nations from the land—they polluted themselves because of all these practices. 25Even the land has become polluted, so I am punishing it for the sins committed by the people who live there, and the land will vomit them out.
26You, however, must do what I tell you and keep my rules. You must not do any of these disgusting acts, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you. 27The people who lived in the land before you practiced all these disgusting things, and the land became polluted. 28If you pollute the land, it will vomit you out just like it did the nations before you.
29Consequently anyone who does any of these disgusting things must be expelled from their people. 30You must accept my demand that you don't follow any of these disgusting practices done before you arrived. Don't pollute yourselves and make yourselves unclean. I am the Lord your God.”
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Leviticus 18
18
Forbidden Sex
1The Lord told Moses 2to tell the people of Israel:
I am the Lord your God! 3So don't follow the customs of Egypt where you used to live or those of Canaan where I am bringing you. 4I am the Lord your God, and you must obey my teachings. 5#Ne 9.29; Ez 18.9; 20.11-13; Lk 10.28; Ro 10.5; Ga 3.12. Obey them and you will live. I am the Lord.
6Don't have sex with any of your close relatives, 7especially your own mother. This would disgrace your father. 8#Lv 20.11; Dt 22.30; 27.14-26. And don't disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives. 9#Lv 20.17; Dt 27.14-26. Don't have sex with your sister or stepsister, whether you grew up together or not. 10Don't disgrace yourself by having sex with your granddaughter 11or half sister 12-13#Lv 20.19,20. or a sister of your father or mother. 14Don't disgrace your uncle by having sex with his wife. 15#Lv 20.12. Don't have sex with your daughter-in-law 16#Lv 20.21. or sister-in-law. 17#Lv 20.14; Dt 27.14-26. And don't have sex with the daughter or granddaughter of any woman that you have earlier had sex with. You will be having sex with her closest relatives, and that would make you unclean. 18As long as your wife is alive, don't cause trouble for her by taking one of her sisters as a second wife.
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Lv 20.18. When a woman is having her monthly period, she is unclean, so don't have sex with her.
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Lv 20.10. Don't have sex with another man's wife—that would make you unclean.
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Lv 20.1-5. Don't sacrifice your children on the altar fires to the god Molech. I am the Lord your God, and that would disgrace me.
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Lv 20.13. It is disgusting for a man to have sex with another man.
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Ex 22.19; Lv 20.15,16; Dt 27.14-26. Anyone who has sex with an animal is unclean.
24Don't make yourselves unclean by any of these disgusting practices of those nations that I am forcing out of the land for you. They made themselves 25and the land so unclean, that I punished the land because of their sins, and I made it vomit them up. 26-27Now don't do these sickening things that make the land filthy. Instead, obey my laws and teachings. 28Then the land won't become sick of you and vomit you up, just as it did them. 29-30If any of you do these vulgar, disgusting things, you will be unclean and no longer belong to my people. I am the Lord your God, and I forbid you to follow their sickening way of life.
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