The king of Egypt had a talk with the two Hebrew midwives; one was named Shiphrah and the other Puah. He said, “When you deliver the Hebrew women, look at the sex of the baby. If it’s a boy, kill him; if it’s a girl, let her live.”

“Anyone who has sex with an animal gets the death penalty.

“Tear down their altars, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their fertility poles. Don’t worship any other god. God—his name is The-Jealous-One—is a jealous God. Be careful that you don’t make a covenant with the people who live in the land and take up with their sex-and-religion life, join them in meals at their altars, marry your sons to their women, women who take up with any convenient god or goddess and will get your sons to do the same thing.

Sex

God spoke to Moses: “Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, I am God, your God. Don’t live like the people of Egypt where you used to live, and don’t live like the people of Canaan where I’m bringing you. Don’t do what they do. Obey my laws and live by my decrees. I am your God. Keep my decrees and laws: The person who obeys them lives by them. I am God.

“Don’t have sex with a close relative. I am God.

“Don’t violate your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother. Don’t have sex with her.

“Don’t have sex with your father’s wife. That violates your father.

“Don’t have sex with your sister, whether she’s your father’s daughter or your mother’s, whether she was born in the same house or elsewhere.

“Don’t have sex with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter. That would violate your own body.

“Don’t have sex with the daughter of your father’s wife born to your father. She is your sister.

“Don’t have sex with your father’s sister; she is your aunt, closely related to your father.

“Don’t have sex with your mother’s sister; she is your aunt, closely related to your mother.

“Don’t violate your father’s brother, your uncle, by having sex with his wife. She is your aunt.

“Don’t have sex with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; don’t have sex with her.

“Don’t have sex with your brother’s wife; that would violate your brother.

“Don’t have sex with both a woman and her daughter. And don’t have sex with her granddaughters either. They are her close relatives. That is wicked.

“Don’t marry your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sex with her while your wife is living.

“Don’t have sex with a woman during the time of her menstrual period when she is unclean.

“Don’t have sex with your neighbor’s wife and violate yourself by her.

“Don’t have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.

“Don’t have sex with an animal and violate yourself by it. “A woman must not have sex with an animal. That is perverse.

“If a man has sex with a slave girl who is engaged to another man but has not yet been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be an investigation. But they aren’t to be put to death because she wasn’t free. The man must bring a Compensation-Offering to God at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, a ram of compensation. The priest will perform the ritual of atonement for him before God with the ram of compensation for the sin he has committed. Then he will stand forgiven of the sin he committed.

“Don’t violate your daughter by making her a whore—the whole country would soon become a brothel, filled with sordid sex.

“If a man has sex with his father’s wife, he has violated his father. Both the man and woman must be put to death; they are responsible for their own deaths.

“If a man has sex with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. What they have done is perverse. And they are responsible for their own deaths.