18:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
18:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ' I proclaim Myself as the LORD your God. |
18:3 'You shall not do what they do in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor should you do what they do in the land of Canaan where I bring you; you shall not walk in their statutes. |
18:4 'You will perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I proclaim Myself as the LORD your God. |
18:5 'So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I proclaim Myself the LORD. |
18:6 'None of you shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I proclaim Myself as the LORD. |
18:7 ' You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, namely, the nakedness of your mother. You acknowledge her as your mother; you should not uncover her nakedness. |
18:8 ' You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; you would uncover your father's nakedness. |
18:9 ' The nakedness of your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover. |
18:10 'The nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for their nakedness you should regard as equivalent to yours. |
18:11 'The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born to your father, you must acknowledge her as your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
18:12 ' You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; you should consider her your father's blood relative. |
18:13 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for you should consider her as your mother's blood relative. |
18:14 ' You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother; you shall not approach his wife, you should acknowledge her as your aunt. |
18:15 ' You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; you shall consider her as your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
18:16 ' You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; you should consider it your brother's nakedness. |
18:17 ' You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; you shall consider them blood relatives. It amounts to lewdness. |
18:18 'You shall not marry a woman after you have first married her sister as a rival while she lives, to uncover her nakedness. |
18:19 ' Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity. |
18:20 ' You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her. |
18:21 'You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I proclaim Myself the LORD. |
18:22 ' You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; you should consider it an abomination. |
18:23 ' Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; you shall regard it as a perversion. |
18:24 'Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I cast out before you have become defiled. |
18:25 'For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants. |
18:26 'But as for you, you shall keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you |
18:27 (for the men of the land who have lived before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); |
18:28 so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has lived before you. |
18:29 'For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall cut themselves off from among their people. |
18:30 'Thus you shall keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which others have practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I proclaim Myself the LORD your God.'" |