Leviticus 18:1–30

¹ Then the LORD said to Moses, ² “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God. ³ You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs. ⁴ You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God. ⁵ Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD. ⁶ None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. ⁷ You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her. ⁸ You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father. ⁹ You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere. ¹⁰ You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family. ¹¹ You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister. ¹² You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative. ¹³ You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative. ¹⁴ You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt. ¹⁵ You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her. ¹⁶ You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother. ¹⁷ You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved. ¹⁸ You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive. ¹⁹ You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period. ²⁰ You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her. ²¹ You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. ²² You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination. ²³ You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to… ²⁴ …