[1] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Speak to the children of Israel, and
tell them, I am Yahweh your God. [3] After the doings of the land of Egypt,
in which you lived, you shall not do: and after the doings of the land of
Canaan, where I bring you, you shall not do; neither shall you walk in
their statutes. [4] My ordinances shall you do, and my statutes shall you
keep, to walk therein: I am Yahweh your God. [5] You shall therefore keep
my statutes, and my ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I
am Yahweh. [6] None of you shall approach to any who are close relatives to
him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am Yahweh. [7] The nakedness of your
father, even the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover: she is
your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. [8] The nakedness of your
father`s wife you shall not uncover: it is your father`s nakedness. [9] The
nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of
your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness you
shall not uncover. [10] The nakedness of your son`s daughter, or of your
daughter`s daughter, even their nakedness you shall not uncover: for theirs
is your own nakedness. [11] The nakedness of your father`s wife`s daughter,
conceived by your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her
nakedness. [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, 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`s wife; you
shall not uncover her nakedness. [16] You shall not uncover the nakedness
of your brother`s wife: it is your brother`s nakedness. [17] You shall not
uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not take her
son`s daughter, or her daughter`s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they
are near kinswomen: it is wickedness. [18] You shall not take a wife to her
sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other
in her lifetime. [19] You shall not approach to a woman to uncover her
nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. [20] You shall not
lie carnally with your neighbor`s wife, to defile yourself with her. [21]
You shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through [the fire] to
Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh. [22]
You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. [23]
You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself therewith; neither
shall any woman stand before a animal, to lie down thereto: it is
confusion. [24] Don`t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all
these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; [25] The
land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity of it on it, and the
land vomits out her inhabitants. [26] You therefore shall keep my statutes
and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the
home-born, nor the stranger who sojourns among you; [27] (for all these
abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the
land is defiled); [28] that the land not vomit you out also, when you
defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. [29] For
whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them
shall be cut off from among their people. [30] Therefore shall you keep my
charge, that you not practice any of these abominable customs, which were
practiced before you, and that you not defile yourselves therein: I am
Yahweh your God.
