Leviticus 18 — ULB
18Verse 1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,Verse 2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God.Verse 3You must not do the things that the people do in Egypt, where you lived previously. You must not do the things that the people do in Canaan, the land to which I am taking you. Do not follow their customs.Verse 4My laws are what you must do, and my commandments are what you must keep, so that you walk in them, because I am Yahweh your God.Verse 5Therefore you must keep my decrees and my laws. If a person obeys them, he will live because of them. I am Yahweh.Verse 6No one must sleep with any close relative to uncover his nakedness. I am Yahweh.Verse 7Do not dishonor your father by sleeping with your mother. She is your mother! You must not dishonor her.Verse 8Do not sleep with any of your father's wives; you must not dishonor your father like that.Verse 9Do not sleep with any sister of yours, whether she is the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether she was raised at your home or distant from you. You must not sleep with your sisters.Verse 10Do not sleep with your son's daughter or with your daughter's daughter. That would be your own shame.Verse 11Do not sleep with your father's wife's daughter, who was born of your father. She is your sister, and you must not sleep with her.Verse 12Do not sleep with your father's sister. She is a close relative to your father.Verse 13Do not sleep with your mother's sister. She is a close relative to your mother.Verse 14Do not dishonor the brother of your father by sleeping with his wife. Do not go near her for that purpose; she is your aunt.Verse 15Do not sleep with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not sleep with her.Verse 16Do not sleep with your brother's wife; do not dishonor him in this way.Verse 17Do not sleep with a woman and her daughter, or with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter. They are close relatives to her, and sleeping with them would be wicked.Verse 18You must not marry your wife's sister as a second wife and sleep with her while your first wife is alive.Verse 19Do not sleep with a woman during her menstruation. She is unclean during that time.Verse 20Do not sleep with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her in this way.Verse 21You must not give any of your children to put them into the fire, so that you sacrifice them to Molech, because you must not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.Verse 22Do not sleep with other men as with a woman. This would be wicked.Verse 23Do not sleep with any animal and defile yourself with it. No woman must consider sleeping with any animal. This would be perversion.Verse 24Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations are defiled, the nations that I will drive out from before you.Verse 25The land became defiled, so I punished their sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.Verse 26You, therefore, must keep my commandments and decrees, and you must not do any of these detestable things, neither the native-born Israelite nor the foreigner who lives among you.Verse 27For this is the wickedness that the people in the land have committed, those who lived here before you, and now the land is defiled.Verse 28Therefore be careful so that the land does not vomit you up also after you have defiled it, as it vomited out the people who were before you.Verse 29Whoever does any of these detestable things, the persons who do such things will be cut off from among their people.Verse 30Therefore you must keep my command not to practice any of these detestable customs which were practiced here before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am Yahweh your God.'”