18:1 The LORD spoke to Moses saying: 18:2 “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the LORD your God. 18:3 As they do in the land of Egypt in which you have been living,¹ you must not do, and as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you,² you must not do; you must not³ walk in their statutes. 18:4 You must observe my regulations⁴ and you must be sure to walk in my statutes.⁵ I am the LORD your God. 18:5 So you must keep⁶ my statutes and my regulations by which anyone who does them will live.⁷ I am the LORD.

18:6 “‘No man is to draw near to any close relative⁸ to uncover her nakedness.⁹ I am the LORD. 18:7 You must not¹⁰ uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother.¹¹ She is your mother; you must not uncover her nakedness. 18:8 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is the nakedness of your father.¹² 18:9 The nakedness of your sister, whether the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother,¹³ whether one born in the same household or born outside;¹⁴ you must not uncover their nakedness. ¹⁵ 18:10 The nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; you must not uncover their nakedness because they are your own nakedness.¹⁶ 18:11 The nakedness of the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not uncover her nakedness.¹⁷ 18:12 You must not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is the flesh of your father.¹⁸ 18:13 The nakedness of your mother’s sister you must not uncover because she is the flesh of your mother. 18:14 You must not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not draw near to his wife. She is your aunt.¹⁹ 18:15 You must not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is the wife of your son, you must not uncover her nakedness. 18:16 You must not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; she is the nakedness of your brother.²⁰ 18:17 You must not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; the daughter of her son and the daughter of her daughter you must not take as a wife to uncover her nakedness.²¹ They are her flesh; it is lewdness.²² 18:18 You must not take a woman in marriage as well as her sister as a rival wife²³ to uncover her nakedness while she is still alive.²⁴

18:19 “‘You must not draw near to a woman in her menstrual impurity²⁵ to uncover her nakedness. 18:20 You must not have sexual intercourse²⁶ with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her. 18:21 You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech,²⁷ so you do not profane²⁸ the name of your God. I am the LORD. 18:22 You must not lie with a male as one lies with a woman;²⁹ it is a detestable act.³⁰ 18:23 You shall not have sexual intercourse³¹ with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman shall not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it;³² it is a perversion.³³

18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations, which I am about to drive out before you,³⁴ have been defiled with all these things. 18:25 Thus³⁵ the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity on it,³⁶ so the land has vomited out its inhabitants. 18:26 Your yourselves must keep³⁷ my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the foreigner³⁸ who resides in your midst, 18:27 for the men who were in the land before you have done all these abominations,³⁹ and the land has become unclean. 18:28 So do not let the land vomit you out because you defile it⁴⁰ just as it has vomited out the nation⁴¹ which was before you, 18:29 for anyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.⁴² 18:30 You must keep my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes⁴³ which have been done before you, so that you do not⁴⁴ defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.’”