[1] And the LORD said to Moses, [2] "Say to the people of Israel, I am the
LORD your God. [3] You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where
you dwelt, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which
I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. [4] You shall do
my ordinances and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your
God. [5] You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, by doing
which a man shall live: I am the LORD. [6] "None of you shall approach any
one near of kin to him to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD. [7] You shall
not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your
mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. [8] You
shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's
nakedness. [9] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the
daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at
home or born abroad. [10] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's
daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own
nakedness. [11] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's
daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your sister. [12] You shall
not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's
near kinswoman. [13] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's
sister, for she is your mother's near kinswoman. [14] You shall not uncover
the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his
wife; she is your aunt. [15] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her
nakedness. [16] You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife;
she is your brother's nakedness. [17] You shall not uncover the nakedness
of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter
or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your near
kinswomen; it is wickedness. [18] And you shall not take a woman as a rival
wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is yet alive.
[19] "You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is
in her menstrual uncleanness. [20] And you shall not lie carnally with your
neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her. [21] You shall not give any
of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name
of your God: I am the LORD. [22] You shall not lie with a male as with a
woman; it is an abomination. [23] And you shall not lie with any beast and
defile yourself with it, neither shall any woman give herself to a beast to
lie with it: it is perversion. [24] "Do not defile yourselves by any of
these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you
defiled themselves; [25] and the land became defiled, so that I punished
its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. [26] But you shall
keep my statutes and my ordinances and do none of these abominations,
either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you [27] (for all of
these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that
the land became defiled); [28] lest the land vomit you out, when you defile
it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. [29] For whoever
shall do any of these abominations, the persons that do them shall be cut
off from among their people. [30] So keep my charge never to practice any
of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to
defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God."
