| | 1 | The LORD said to Moses, | |
| | 2 | "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the LORD your God. | |
| | 3 | You must not do as they do in 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 practices. | |
| | 4 | You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God. | |
| | 5 | Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD. | |
| | 6 | "'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. | |
| | 7 | "'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her. | |
| | 8 | "'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father. | |
| | 9 | "'Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere. | |
| | 10 | "'Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you. | |
| | 11 | "'Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister. | |
| | 12 | "'Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative. | |
| | 13 | "'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative. | |
| | 14 | "'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt. | |
| | 15 | "'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her. | |
| | 16 | "'Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother. | |
| | 17 | "'Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness. | |
| | 18 | "'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living. | |
| | 19 | "'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period. | |
| | 20 | "'Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her. | |
| | 21 | "'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. | |
| | 22 | "'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. | |
| | 23 | "'Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion. | |
| | 24 | "'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. | |
| | 25 | Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. | |
| | 26 | But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things, | |
| | 27 | for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. | |
| | 28 | And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you. | |
| | 29 | "'Everyone who does any of these detestable things--such persons must be cut off from their people. | |
| | 30 | Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.'" | |
