Leviticus 18

1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,● 2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.● 3After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.● 4Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I {am} the LORD your God.● 5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I {am} the LORD.● 6None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover {their} nakedness: I {am} the LORD. {near...: Heb. remainder of his flesh}● 7The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she {is} thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.● 8The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it {is} thy father's nakedness.● 9The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, {whether she be} born at home, or born abroad, {even} their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.● 10The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, {even} their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs {is} thine own nakedness.● 11The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she {is} thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.● 12Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she {is} thy father's near kinswoman.● 13Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she {is} thy mother's near kinswoman.● 14Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she {is} thine aunt.● 15Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she {is} thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.● 16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it {is} thy brother's nakedness.● 17Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; {for} they {are} her near kinswomen: it {is} wickedness.● 18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex {her}, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life {time}. {a wife...: or, one wife to another}● 19Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.● 20Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.● 21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through {the fire} to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I {am} the LORD. {Molech: Gr. Moloch}● 22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it {is} abomination.● 23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it {is} confusion.● 24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:● 25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.● 26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit {any} of these abominations; {neither} any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:● 27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which {were} before you, and the land is defiled;)● 28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that {were} before you.● 29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit {them} shall be cut off from among their people.● 30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that {ye} commit not {any one} of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I {am} the LORD your God.●