Leviticus 18

¹ The LORD said to Moses,

² "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I, the LORD, am your God.

³ You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you once lived, nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; do not conform to their customs.

⁴ My decrees you shall carry out, and my statutes you shall take care to follow. I, the LORD, am your God.

⁵ Keep, then, my statutes and decrees, for the man who carries them out will find life through them. I am the LORD.

⁶ "None of you shall approach a close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the LORD.

⁷ You shall not disgrace your father by having intercourse with your mother. Besides, since she is your own mother, you shall not have intercourse with her.

⁸ You shall not have intercourse with your father's wife, for that would be a disgrace to your father.

⁹ You shall not have intercourse with your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in your own household or born elsewhere.

¹⁰ You shall not have intercourse with your son's daughter or with your daughter's daughter, for that would be a disgrace to your own family.

¹¹ You shall not have intercourse with the daughter whom your father's wife bore to him, since she, too, is your sister.

¹² You shall not have intercourse with your father's sister, since she is your father's relative.

¹³ You shall not have intercourse with your mother's sister, since she is your mother's relative.

¹⁴ You shall not disgrace your father's brother by being intimate with his wife, since she, too, is your aunt.

¹⁵ You shall not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, and therefore you shall not disgrace her.

¹⁶ You shall not have intercourse with your brother's wife, for that would be a disgrace to your brother.

¹⁷ You shall not have intercourse with a woman and also with her daughter, nor shall you marry and have intercourse with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; this would be shameful, because they are related to her.

¹⁸ While your wife is still living you shall not marry her sister as her rival; for thus you would disgrace your first wife.

¹⁹ "You shall not approach a woman to have intercourse with her while she is unclean from menstruation.

²⁰ You shall not have carnal relations with your neighbor's wife, defiling yourself with her.

²¹ You shall not offer any of your offspring to be immolated to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the LORD.

²² You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination.

²³ You shall not have carnal relations with an animal, defiling yourself with it; nor shall a woman set herself in front of an animal to mate with it; such things are abhorrent.

²⁴ "Do not defile yourselves by any of these things by which the nations whom I am driving out of your way have defiled themselves.

²⁵ Because their land has become defiled, I am punishing it for its wickedness, by making it vomit out its inhabitants.

²⁶ You, however, whether natives or resident aliens, must keep my statutes and decrees forbidding all such abominations

²⁷ by which the previous inhabitants defiled the land;

²⁸ otherwise the land will vomit you out also for having defiled it, just as it vomited out the nations before you.

²⁹ Everyone who does any of these abominations shall be cut off from among his people.

³⁰ Heed my charge, then, not to defile yourselves by observing the abominable customs that have been observed before you. I, the LORD, am your God."