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Leviticus 18:12-28

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12Do not have sex with your father's sister, because she is your father's close relative.
13Do not have sex with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
14Do not disgrace your ◄uncle/father's brother►by having sex with his wife, because she is your aunt.
15Do not have sex with DOU your daughter-in-law, because she is your son's wife.
16Do not have sex with your brother's wife, because that would disgrace your brother.
17Do not have sex with the daughter or granddaughter of any woman whom you have previously had sex with; they are her (OR, your) close relatives. Having sex with any of them would be a wicked thing to do.
18While your wife is still living, do not marry your wife's sister and have sex with her.
19Do not have sex with any woman while she is having her monthly menstrual period.
20Do not ◄defile yourself/make yourself unacceptable to me► by having sex with someone else's wife.
21Do not give any of your children to be burned to be a sacrifice to the god Molech, because that would show that you do not revere me MTY, Yahweh, your God.
22No man should have sex with another man; that is detestable.
23No one, man or woman, should ◄defile himself/cause himself to become unacceptable to me► by having sex with an animal; that is a perverse act.
24Do not ◄defile yourselves/cause yourselves to become unacceptable to me► in any of those ways, because doing those things is how the people of the nations that I expelled as you advanced became ◄unacceptable to me/defiled►.
25They even caused the land to become defiled, so I punished them for their sins, and it was as though the land vomited out the people who lived there.
26You must all obey my laws and decrees. That includes you people who were born here and the foreigners who live among you.
27All those detestable things were done by the people who lived in this land before you came here, and they caused the land to become defiled.
28So if you defile the land, I will get rid of MET you like I got rid of the people of those nations that were here before you came.

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