1 A nd the Lord said to Moses,

2 S ay to the Israelites, I am the Lord your God.

3 Y ou 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 Y ou shall do My ordinances and keep My statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.

5 Y ou shall therefore keep My statutes and My ordinances which, if a man does, he shall live by them. I am the Lord.

6 N one of you shall approach anyone close of kin to him to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.

7 T he 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 T he nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.

9 Y ou 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 Y ou 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 Y ou 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 Y ou shall not have intercourse with your father’s sister; she is your father’s near kinswoman.

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

14 Y ou shall not have intercourse with your father’s brother’s wife; you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

15 Y ou shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not have intercourse with her.

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

17 Y ou 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 near kinswomen; it is wickedness and an outrageous offense.

18 Y ou 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 A lso you shall not have intercourse with a woman during her uncleanness.

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

21 Y ou shall not give any of your children to pass through the fire and sacrifice them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

22 Y ou shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.

23 N either 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 D o 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 A nd the land is defiled; therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.

26 S o 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 F or all these abominations have the men of the land done who were before you, and the land is defiled—

28 l est the land spew you out when you defile it as it spewed out the nation that was before you.

29 W hoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from among people.

30 S o 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.