Unlawful Sexual Relations

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, qI am the Lord your God. ³rYou shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and syou shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. ⁴tYou shall follow my rules1 and keep my statutes and walk in them. qI am the Lord your God. ⁵tYou shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; uif a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.

⁶“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord. ⁷vYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. ⁸wYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness. ⁹xYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. ¹⁰You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. ¹¹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister. ¹²You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative. ¹³You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's relative. ¹⁴You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. ¹⁵yYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. ¹⁶zYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness. ¹⁷You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. ¹⁸And you shall not take a woman as a arival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness bwhile her sister is still alive.

¹⁹c“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. ²⁰dAnd you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. ²¹You shall not give any of your children to eoffer them2 to fMolech, and so gprofane the name of your God: I am the Lord. ²²hYou shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. ²³iAnd you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is jperversion.

²⁴k“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, lfor by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, ²⁵and the mland became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land nvomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶But oyou shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the pnative or the stranger who sojourns among you ²⁷(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), ²⁸lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. ²⁹For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. ³⁰qSo keep my charge never to practice rany of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: sI am the Lord your God.”