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Leviticus 18

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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, I am Yahweh your God.

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After the doings of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, you shall not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you, you shall not do; neither shall you walk in their statutes.

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My ordinances shall you do, and my statutes shall you keep, to walk therein: I am Yahweh your God.

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You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

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None of you shall approach to any who are close relatives to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am Yahweh.

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The nakedness of your father, even the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover: she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

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The nakedness of your father`s wife you shall not uncover: it is your father`s nakedness.

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The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness you shall not uncover.

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The nakedness of your son`s daughter, or of your daughter`s daughter, even their nakedness you shall not uncover: for theirs is your own nakedness.

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The nakedness of your father`s wife`s daughter, conceived by your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father`s sister: she is your father`s near kinswoman.

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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother`s sister: for she is your mother`s near kinswoman.

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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father`s brother, you shall not approach to his wife: she is your aunt.

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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son`s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother`s wife: it is your brother`s nakedness.

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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.

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You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime.

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You shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

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You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor`s wife, to defile yourself with her.

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You shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.

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You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

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You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a animal, to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

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Don`t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;

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The land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity of it on it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants.

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You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger who sojourns among you;

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(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);

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that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

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Therefore shall you keep my charge, that you not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you not defile yourselves therein: I am Yahweh your God.

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Leviticus

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