Leviticus 18
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Leviticus 18:6-30

6‘None of you shall approach any blood relative 1of his to uncover nakedness; I am the Lord. 72You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness. 83You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. 94The nakedness of your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover. 10The nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for 5their nakedness is yours. 11The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, 6born to your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 127You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s blood relative. 13You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s blood relative. 148You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; you shall not approach his wife, she is your aunt. 159You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 1610You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness. 1711You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is 12lewdness. 18You shall not 13marry a woman in addition to 14her sister 15as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.

19‘16Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her 17menstrual impurity. 2018You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her. 21You shall not give any of your offspring 19to 20offer them to Molech, nor shall you 21profane the name of your God; I am the Lord. 2222You shall not lie with a male as 23one lies with a female; it is an abomination. 2324Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to 25mate with it; it is a perversion.

24‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these 26the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. 25For the land has become defiled, 27therefore I have brought its 28punishment upon it, so the land 29has spewed out its inhabitants. 26But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you 27(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); 28so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you. 29For whoever does any of these abominations, 30those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. 30Thus you are to keep 31My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; 32I am the Lord your God.’”

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Notes

  1. 1. Leviticus 18:6 Lit of his flesh ↩
  2. 2. Leviticus 18:7 Lev 20:11; Deut 27:20; Ezek 22:10 ↩
  3. 3. Leviticus 18:8 Lev 20:11; Deut 22:30; 27:20; 1 Cor 5:1 ↩
  4. 4. Leviticus 18:9 Lev 18:11; 20:17; Deut 27:22 ↩
  5. 5. Leviticus 18:10 Lit they are your nakedness ↩
  6. 6. Leviticus 18:11 Lit begotten of ↩
  7. 7. Leviticus 18:12 Lev 20:19 ↩
  8. 8. Leviticus 18:14 Lev 20:20 ↩
  9. 9. Leviticus 18:15 Lev 20:12 ↩
  10. 10. Leviticus 18:16 Lev 20:21 ↩
  11. 11. Leviticus 18:17 Lev 20:14 ↩
  12. 12. Leviticus 18:17 Or wickedness ↩
  13. 13. Leviticus 18:18 Lit take a wife ↩
  14. 14. Leviticus 18:18 Or another ↩
  15. 15. Leviticus 18:18 Lit to be ↩
  16. 16. Leviticus 18:19 Lev 15:24; 20:18 ↩
  17. 17. Leviticus 18:19 Lev 12:2 ↩
  18. 18. Leviticus 18:20 Lev 20:10; Prov 6:29; Matt 5:27, 28; 1 Cor 6:9; Heb 13:4 ↩
  19. 19. Leviticus 18:21 Lev 20:2-5; Deut 12:31 ↩
  20. 20. Leviticus 18:21 Lit cause to pass over ↩
  21. 21. Leviticus 18:21 Lev 19:12; 20:3; 21:6; Ezek 36:20; Mal 1:12 ↩
  22. 22. Leviticus 18:22 Lev 20:13; Deut 23:18 mg; Rom 1:27 ↩
  23. 23. Leviticus 18:22 Lit those who lie ↩
  24. 24. Leviticus 18:23 Ex 22:19; Lev 20:15, 16; Deut 27:21 ↩
  25. 25. Leviticus 18:23 Or lie ↩
  26. 26. Leviticus 18:24 Lev 18:3; Deut 18:12 ↩
  27. 27. Leviticus 18:25 Lev 20:23; Deut 9:5; 18:12 ↩
  28. 28. Leviticus 18:25 Lit iniquity ↩
  29. 29. Leviticus 18:25 Lev 18:28; 20:22 ↩
  30. 30. Leviticus 18:29 Or and the ↩
  31. 31. Leviticus 18:30 Lev 22:9; Deut 11:1 ↩
  32. 32. Leviticus 18:30 Lev 18:2 ↩

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