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¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God.

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.

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.

⁵Therefore you must keep my decrees and my laws. If a person obeys them, he will live because of them. I am Yahweh.

⁶No one must sleep with any close relative to uncover his nakedness. I am Yahweh.

⁷Do not dishonor your father by sleeping with your mother. She is your mother! You must not dishonor her.

⁸Do not sleep with any of your father's wives; you must not dishonor your father like that.

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.

¹⁰Do not sleep with your son's daughter or with your daughter's daughter. That would be your own shame.

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.

¹²Do not sleep with your father's sister. She is a close relative to your father.

¹³Do not sleep with your mother's sister. She is a close relative to your mother.

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.

¹⁵Do not sleep with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not sleep with her.

¹⁶Do not sleep with your brother's wife; do not dishonor him in this way.

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.

¹⁸You must not marry your wife's sister as a second wife and sleep with her while your first wife is alive.

¹⁹Do not sleep with a woman during her menstruation. She is unclean during that time.

²⁰Do not sleep with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her in this way.

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.

²²Do not sleep with other men as with a woman. This would be wicked.

²³Do not sleep with any animal and defile yourself with it. No woman must consider sleeping with any animal. This would be perversion.

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.

²⁵The land became defiled, so I punished their sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

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.

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.

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.

²⁹Whoever does any of these detestable things, the persons who do such things will be cut off from among their people.

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.'”