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 person 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 Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
22 "'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does 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 foreigners residing 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.'"
1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am the LORD your God.
3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein you dwelled, shall you not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you, shall you not do: neither shall you walk in their ordinances.
4 You shall do my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
5 You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
7 The nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother, shall you not uncover: she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
8 The nakedness of your father' wife shall you not uncover: it is your father' nakedness.
9 The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or daughter of your mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness you shall not uncover.
10 The nakedness of your son' daughter, or of your daughter' daughter, even their nakedness you shall not uncover: for theirs is your own nakedness.
11 The nakedness of your father' wife' daughter, begotten of your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father' sister: she is your father' near kinswoman.
13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother' sister: for she is your mother' near kinswoman.
14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father' brother, you shall not approach to his wife: she is your aunt.
15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter in law: she is your son' wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother' wife: it is your brother' nakedness.
17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shall you take her son' daughter, or her daughter' daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18 Neither shall you take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
19 Also you shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
20 Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor' wife, to defile yourself with her.
21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
22 You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
23 Neither shall you lie with any beast to defile yourself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
24 Defile not you yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof on it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.
26 You 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 sojournes among you:
27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28 That the land spew not you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.
29 For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 Therefore shall you keep my ordinance, that you commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.