shall
therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall
live in them: I am Yahweh.
6 "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to
uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
7 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor 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, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own
nakedness.
11 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter,
conceived 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,
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: 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 uncover
her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
19 "'You shall not approach 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, and defile
yourself with her.
21 "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech;
neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.
22 "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is
detestible.
23 "'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither
shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a
perversion.
24 "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the
nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. 25 The land was
defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her
inhabitants. 26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my
ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the
native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; 27 (for all these
abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the
land became 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 you
shall keep my charge, that you do not practice any of these abominable
customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile
yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"
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