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Chapter 18
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: I am the Lord your God.
3 You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you, nor shall you walk in their ordinances.
4 You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
5 Keep my laws and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord.
6 No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.
7 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, or 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: for it is the nakedness of your father.
9 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister by father or by mother, whether born at home or abroad.
10 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or your daughter's daughter: because it is your own nakedness.
11 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, whom she bore to your father, and who is your sister.
12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: because she is the flesh of your father.
13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: because she is your mother's flesh.
14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother: neither shall you approach to his wife, who is joined to you by affinity.
15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter in law: because she is your son's wife, neither shall you discover her shame.
16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: because it is the nakedness of your brother.
17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your wife and her daughter. you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest.
18 You shall not take your wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her, neither shall you discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.
19 You shall not approach to a woman having her flowers, neither shall you uncover her nakedness.
20 You shall not lie with your neighbour's wife, nor be defiled with mingling of seed.
21 You shall not give any of your seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of your God: I am the Lord.
22 You shall not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination.
23 You shall not copulate with any beast, neither shall you be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.
24 Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,
25 And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.
26 Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments, and do not any of these abominations: neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourns among you.
27 For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that; were before you, and have defiled it.
28 Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29 Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.
30 Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.