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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Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 18
18
1And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
2“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘I am יהוה your Elohim.
3‘Do not do as they do in the land of Mitsrayim, where you dwelt. And do not do as they do in the land of Kena‛an, where I am bringing you, and do not walk in their laws.
4‘Do My right-rulings and guard My laws, to walk in them. I am יהוה your Elohim.
5‘And you shall guard My laws and My right-rulings, which a man does and lives by them. I am יהוה.
6‘No one is to approach anyone of his own flesh to uncover his nakedness. I am יהוה.
7‘The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you do not uncover. She is your mother, you do not uncover her nakedness.
8‘The nakedness of your father’s wife you do not uncover, it is your father’s nakedness.
9‘The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or elsewhere, their nakedness you do not uncover.
10‘The nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, their nakedness you do not uncover, for theirs is your own nakedness.
11‘The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought forth by your father, she is your sister, you do not uncover her nakedness.
12‘The nakedness of your father’s sister you do not uncover, she is your father’s flesh.
13‘The nakedness of your mother’s sister you do not uncover, for she is your mother’s flesh.
14‘The nakedness of your father’s brother you do not uncover, you do not approach his wife, she is your aunt.
15‘The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you do not uncover, she is your son’s wife, you do not uncover her nakedness.
16‘The nakedness of your brother’s wife you do not uncover, it is your brother’s nakedness.
17‘The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you do not uncover, nor do you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are her relatives – it is wickedness.
18‘And do not take a woman as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive.
19‘And do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness in her monthly separation of uncleanness.
20‘And do not have intercourse with the wife of your neighbour, to defile yourself with her.
21‘And do not give any of your offspring to pass through to Moleḵ. And do not profane the Name of your Elohim. I am יהוה.
22‘And do not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination.
23‘And do not have intercourse with any beast, to defile yourself with it. And a woman does not stand before a beast to mate with it, it is a perversion.
24‘Do not defile yourselves with all these, for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am driving out before you.
25‘Thus the land became defiled, therefore I punished it for its crookedness, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26‘But you, you shall guard My laws and My right-rulings, and not do any of these abominations, the native nor stranger who sojourns among you,
27because the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and thus the land became defiled,
28‘So let not the land vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
29‘For whoever does any of these abominations, those beings who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
30‘And you shall guard My Charge, so as not to do any of these abominable laws which were done before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them. I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”
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