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.
19 #
Lv 20.18. When a woman is having her monthly period, she is unclean, so don't have sex with her.
20 #
Lv 20.10. Don't have sex with another man's wife—that would make you unclean.
21 #
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.
22 #
Lv 20.13. It is disgusting for a man to have sex with another man.
23 #
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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Leviticus 18
18
Sex
1-5 God spoke to Moses: “Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, I am God, your God. Don’t live like the people of Egypt where you used to live, and don’t live like the people of Canaan where I’m bringing you. Don’t do what they do. Obey my laws and live by my decrees. I am your God. Keep my decrees and laws: The person who obeys them lives by them. I am God.
6“Don’t have sex with a close relative. I am God.
7“Don’t violate your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother. Don’t have sex with her.
8“Don’t have sex with your father’s wife. That violates your father.
9“Don’t have sex with your sister, whether she’s your father’s daughter or your mother’s, whether she was born in the same house or elsewhere.
10“Don’t have sex with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter. That would violate your own body.
11“Don’t have sex with the daughter of your father’s wife born to your father. She is your sister.
12“Don’t have sex with your father’s sister; she is your aunt, closely related to your father.
13“Don’t have sex with your mother’s sister; she is your aunt, closely related to your mother.
14“Don’t violate your father’s brother, your uncle, by having sex with his wife. She is your aunt.
15“Don’t have sex with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; don’t have sex with her.
16“Don’t have sex with your brother’s wife; that would violate your brother.
17“Don’t have sex with both a woman and her daughter. And don’t have sex with her granddaughters either. They are her close relatives. That is wicked.
18“Don’t marry your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sex with her while your wife is living.
19“Don’t have sex with a woman during the time of her menstrual period when she is unclean.
20“Don’t have sex with your neighbor’s wife and violate yourself by her.
21“Don’t give any of your children to be burned in sacrifice to the god Molech—an act of sheer blasphemy of your God. I am God.
22“Don’t have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.
23“Don’t have sex with an animal and violate yourself by it.
“A woman must not have sex with an animal. That is perverse.
24-28“Don’t pollute yourself in any of these ways. This is how the nations became polluted, the ones that I am going to drive out of the land before you. Even the land itself became polluted and I punished it for its iniquities—the land vomited up its inhabitants. You must keep my decrees and laws—natives and foreigners both. You must not do any of these abhorrent things. The people who lived in this land before you arrived did all these things and polluted the land. And if you pollute it, the land will vomit you up just as it vomited up the nations that preceded you.
29-30“Those who do any of these abhorrent things will be cut off from their people. Keep to what I tell you; don’t engage in any of the abhorrent acts that were practiced before you came. Don’t pollute yourselves with them. I am God, your God.”
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