Leviticus 18 | Strong's Bible

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CHAPTER 18

Then the LORD

said

to

Moses,

“Speak

to

the Israelites

and tell

them,

‘I

am the LORD

your God.

You shall not follow

the practices

of the land

of Egypt,

where

you used to live,

or

the practices

of the land

of Canaan,

where

I

am bringing you.

You must not

walk

in their customs.

You are to practice

My judgments

and keep

My statutes

by walking

in them.

I

am the LORD

your God.

Keep

My statutes

and

My judgments,

for

the man

who does these things

will live

by them.

I

am the LORD.

None of

you are to approach

any

close relative

to have sexual relations.

I

am the LORD.

You must not

expose the nakedness

of your father

by having sexual relations with

your mother.

She

is your mother;

you must not

have sexual relations with

her.

You must not

have sexual relations with

your father’s

wife;

it

would dishonor

your father.

You must 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.

You must not

have sexual relations with

your son’s

daughter

or

your daughter’s

daughter,

for

that

would shame your family.

You must not

have sexual relations with

the daughter

of your father’s

wife,

born

to your father;

she

is your sister.

You must not

have sexual relations with

your father’s

sister;

she

is your father’s

close relative.

You must not

have sexual relations with

your mother’s

sister,

for

she

is your mother’s

close relative.

You must not

dishonor

your father’s

brother

by approaching

his wife

to have sexual relations

with her;

she is

your aunt.

You must not

have sexual relations with

your daughter-in-law.

She

is your son’s

wife;

you are not

to have sexual relations with

her.

You must not

have sexual relations with

your brother’s

wife;

that

would shame

your brother.

You must not

have sexual relations with both

a woman

and her daughter.

You are not

to marry

her son’s

daughter

or her daughter’s

daughter

and have sexual relations with

her.

They

are close relatives;

it

is depraved.

You must not

take

your wife’s

sister

as a rival wife

and have sexual relations

with her

while your wife is still alive.

You must not

approach

a woman

to have sexual relations with

her

during her menstrual period.

You must not

have sexual relations

with

your neighbor’s

wife

and thus defile yourself

with her.

You must 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.

You must not

lie

with

a man

as with

a woman;

that

is an abomination.

You must not

have sexual relations

with any

animal,

thus defiling yourself

with it;

a woman

must not

stand

before

an animal

to mate with it;

that

is a perversion.

Do not

defile

yourselves by any

of these practices,

for

by all

these things

the nations

I

am driving out

before you

have defiled themselves.

Even the land

has become defiled,

so I am punishing it

for its sin,

and the land

will vomit out

its

inhabitants.

But you

are to keep

My statutes

and ordinances,

and you must not

commit

any

of these

abominations—

neither your native-born

nor the foreigner

who lives

among you.

For

the men

who were in the land

before you

committed

all

these

abominations,

and the land

has become defiled.

So if you defile

the land,

it will vomit you out

as

it spewed out

the nations

before you.

Therefore

anyone

who

commits

any

of these

abominations

must be cut off

from among

his people.

You must keep

My charge

not

to practice

any of the abominable

customs

that

were practiced

before you,

so that you do not

defile yourselves

by them.

I

am the LORD

your God.”

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