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Version 0.35.76, 26 August 2024

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Leviticus Chapter 18

1And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the Lord your God. 3You will not act according to the practices of the land of Egypt in which you lived, and you will not act according to the practices of the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you. And you shall not walk in their statutes. 4You will act in accordance with my regulations, and you will keep my statutes, by walking in them. I am the Lord your God. 5And you will keep my statutes and my regulations, which a man shall do and live by. I am the Lord. 6No man will approach any kinsman of the flesh to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord. 7You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8You shall not uncover the nakedness of the wife of your father: it is the nakedness of your father. 9As for the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born away from home, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 10As for the nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, you shall not uncover their nakedness, for they are your nakedness. 11As for the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife – your father's offspring – she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's kin. 13You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's kin. 14You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother; you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt. 15You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16You 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 her daughter, nor will you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness: they are her kin; it is lewdness. 18And you will not take a woman to wife in addition to her sister, which would cause strife in uncovering her nakedness as well as the first one's, while she is still alive. 19And you will not approach a woman in her time of being set apart for her menstrual impurity, uncovering her nakedness. 20And you shall not lie in intercourse with your fellow citizen's wife, so being defiled by her. 21And you shall not let any of your seed impregnate prostitutes of Molech, and you shall not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. 22You shall not lie with a male as in the act of lying with a woman. It is an abomination. 23And you shall not let your intercourse be with any animal, so defiling yourself with it, and a woman shall not stand before an animal so that it copulates with her; it is a perversion. 24Do not defile yourselves with any of these, for the Gentiles are defiled by all of these, whom I am casting out before you. 25And the land is defiled, and I will visit it for its iniquity, and the land will vomit up its inhabitants. 26And you will keep my statutes and my regulations, and you will not commit any of these abominations – neither the native nor the foreigner who is living in your midst – 27for the men of the land who were before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled, 28so that the land does not vomit you up for your defiling of it, as it vomited up the nation which was before you. 29For as for anyone who commits any of the abominations, the individuals who commit them will be cut off from the midst of their people. 30And you will keep my charge not to engage in any abominable statutes which were committed before you, and you will not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.’ ”

Reference(s) in Chapter 18: v.5 ↔ Romans 10:5, Galatians 3:12.

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