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18:1  The Lord said to Moses:
18:2  Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I, the Lord, am your God.
18:3  You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you once lived, nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; do not conform to their customs.
18:4  My decrees you shall carry out, and my statutes you shall take care to follow. I, the Lord, am your God.
18:5  Keep, then, my statutes and decrees, for the person who carries them out will find life through them. I am the Lord.
18:6  None of you shall approach a close relative to have sexual intercourse. I am the Lord.
18:7  You shall not disgrace your father by having intercourse with your mother. She is your own mother; you shall not have intercourse with her.
18:8  You shall not have intercourse with your father’s wife, for that would be a disgrace to your father.
18:9  You shall not have intercourse with your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in your own household or born elsewhere.
18:10  You shall not have intercourse with your son’s daughter or with your daughter’s daughter, for that would be a disgrace to you.
18:11  You shall not have intercourse with the daughter whom your father’s wife bore to him in his household, since she, too, is your sister.
18:12  You shall not have intercourse with your father’s sister, since she is your father’s relative.
18:13  You shall not have intercourse with your mother’s sister, since she is your mother’s relative.
18:14  You shall not disgrace your father’s brother by having sexual relations with his wife, since she, too, is your aunt.
18:15  You shall not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not have intercourse with her.
18:16  You shall not have intercourse with your brother’s wife; that would be a disgrace to your brother.
18:17  You shall not have intercourse with a woman and also with her daughter, nor shall you marry and have intercourse with her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; they are related to her. This would be shameful.
18:18  While your wife is still living you shall not marry her sister as her rival and have intercourse with her.
18:19  You shall not approach a woman to have intercourse with her while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
18:20  You shall not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.
18:21  You shall not offer any of your offspring for immolation to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the Lord.
18:22  You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination.
18:23  You shall not have sexual relations with an animal, defiling yourself with it; nor shall a woman set herself in front of an animal to mate with it; that is perverse.
18:24  Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, because by them the nations whom I am driving out of your way have defiled themselves.
18:25  And so the land has become defiled, and I have punished it for its wickedness, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
18:26  You, however, must keep my statutes and decrees, avoiding all these abominations, both the natives and the aliens resident among you—
18:27  because the previous inhabitants did all these abominations and the land became defiled;
18:28  otherwise the land will vomit you out also for having defiled it, just as it vomited out the nations before you.
18:29  For whoever does any of these abominations shall be cut off from the people.
18:30  Heed my charge, then, not to observe the abominable customs that have been observed before your time, and thus become impure by them. I, the Lord, am your God.