Leviticus 18

1Yahweh spoke to Moses:

2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: I am Yahweh your God.

3You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their statutes.

4You are to carry out my ordinances and keep my statutes, living by them. I am Yahweh your God.

5Keep my statutes and my ordinances; the person who does them will live by them. I am Yahweh.

6None of you may approach any close relative to uncover nakedness. I am Yahweh.

7Do not uncover the nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; do not uncover her nakedness.

8Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

9Do not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same household or born elsewhere; do not uncover their nakedness.

10Do not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; do not uncover their nakedness, for their nakedness is your own.

11Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, born to your father. She is your sister; do not uncover her nakedness.

12Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

13Do not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.

14Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; do not approach his wife. She is your aunt.

15Do not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; do not uncover her nakedness.

16Do not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

17Do not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. Do not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness. They are close relatives; it is depravity.

18Do not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

19Do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during the uncleanness of her menstrual period.

20Do not lie with your neighbor’s wife and so defile yourself with her.

21Do not give any of your children to be offered to Molech, and do not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

22Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is detestable.

23Do not lie with any animal and so defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

24Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you defiled themselves.

25The land became defiled, so I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

26But you must keep my statutes and my ordinances and not do any of these detestable things, neither the native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.

27For the people of the land who were there before you did all these detestable things, and the land became defiled.

28Otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, just as it vomited out the nation that was there before you.

29Whoever does any of these detestable things—the people who do them must be cut off from among their people.

30So keep my charge, and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, and do not defile yourselves by them. I am Yahweh your God.”