Leviticus 18

1 And יהוה spake unto Moses (Mosheh), saying,

2 “Speak unto the children of Yisrael, and say unto them: ‘I am יהוה your God (Elohim).

3 After the doings of the land of Egypt (Mitsrayim), wherein you dwelt, shall you not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall you not do; neither shall you walk in their ordinances.

4 You shall do my judgments, and keep Mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am יהוה your God (Elohim).

5 You shall therefore keep My statutes, and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall have life through them: I am יהוה.

6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am יהוה.

7 The nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother, shalt you not uncover. She is your mother; you shalt not uncover her nakedness.

8 The nakedness of your father’s wife shalt you not uncover; it is your father’s 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 shalt not uncover.

10 The nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness you shalt not uncover; for theirs is your own nakedness.

11 The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of your father, she is your sister, you shalt not uncover her nakedness.

12 You shalt not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s near kinswoman.

13 You shalt not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.

14 You shalt not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, you shalt not approach to his wife; she is your aunt.

15 You shalt not uncover the nakedness of your daughter in law; she is your son’s wife; you shalt not uncover her nakedness.

16 You shalt not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

17 You shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt you take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

18 Neither shalt you take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

19 Also you shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

20 Moreover you shalt not lie carnally with your neighbour’s wife, to defile yourself with her.

21 And you shalt not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt you profane the name of your God (Elohim): I am יהוה.

22 You shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

23 Neither shalt you lie with any beast to defile yourself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is perversion.

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 upon it, and the land itself vomiteth 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 sojourneth 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 spue not you out also, when you defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

29 For whosoever 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 Mine 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 יהוה your God (Elohim).’”