Leviticus 18

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

18 And the Lord said to Moses,

² Say to the Israelites, I am the Lord your God.

³ You shall not do as was done in the land of Egypt in which you dwelt, nor shall you do as is done in the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.

⁴ You shall do My ordinances and keep My statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.

⁵ You shall therefore keep My statutes and My ordinances which, if a man does, he shall live by them. I am the Lord.^(A)

⁶ None of you shall approach anyone close of kin to him to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.

⁷ The nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover; she is your mother; you shall not have intercourse with her.

⁸ The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.

⁹ You shall not have intercourse with or uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.

¹⁰ You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; their nakedness you shall not uncover, for they are your own flesh.

¹¹ You must not have intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter; begotten by your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

¹² You shall not have intercourse with your father’s sister; she is your father’s near kinswoman.

¹³ You shall not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.

¹⁴ You shall not have intercourse with your father’s brother’s wife; 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 have intercourse with her.

¹⁶ You shall not have intercourse with your brother’s wife; she belongs to your brother.

¹⁷ You shall not marry a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have intercourse; they are [her] near kinswomen; it is wickedness and an outrageous offense.

¹⁸ You must not marry a woman in addition to her sister, to be a rival to her, having sexual relations with the second sister when the first one is alive.

¹⁹ Also you shall not have intercourse with a woman during her [menstrual period or similar] uncleanness.

²⁰ Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her.

²¹ You shall not give any of your children to pass through the fire and sacrifice them to Molech [the fire god], nor shall you profane the name of your God [by giving it to false gods]. I am the Lord.

²² You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.^(B)

²³ Neither shall you lie with any beast and defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman yield herself to a beast to lie with it; it is confusion, perversion, and degradedly carnal.

²⁴ Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these things the nations are defiled which I am casting out before you.

²⁵ And the land is defiled; therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.

²⁶ So you shall keep My statutes and My ordinances and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither the native-born nor any stranger who sojourns among you,

²⁷ For all these abominations have the men of the land done who were before you, and the land is defiled—

²⁸ [Do none of these things] lest the land spew you out when you defile it as it spewed out the nation that was before you.

²⁹ Whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from among [his] people.

³⁰ So keep My charge: do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you and defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.