Unlawful Sexual Relations
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘I am the Lord your God. 3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes. 4 You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, by which a man that does them shall live. I am the Lord.
6 None of you shall approach any close relatives, to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.
7 You shall not shame your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother. You shall not have sexual relations with her.
8 You shall not have sexual relations with your father’s wife. It would shame your father.
9 You shall not have sexual relations with your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.
10 You shall not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter, or your daughter’s daughter, for they are your own descendants.
11 You shall not have sexual relations with your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.
12 You shall not have sexual relations with your father’s sister. She is your father’s close relative.
13 You shall not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
14 You shall not have sexual relations with your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.
15 You shall not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not have sexual relations with her.
16 You shall not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife. It would shame your brother.
17 You shall not have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter. You shall not marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to have sexual relations with them. They are close relatives. It is wickedness.
18 You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to have sexual relations, while her sister is still alive.
19 You shall not approach a woman for sexual relations, as long as she is set apart for her menstrual impurity.
20 You shall not have sexual relations with with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.
21 You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.
22 You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.
23 You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it. It is a perversion.
24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for this is the manner in which all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. 25 The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native-born, nor the foreigner who sojourns among you 27 (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled), 28 that the land not vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29 For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the people that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.’ ”