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18:1 |
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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18:2 |
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: I am the LORD your God.
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18:3 |
You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.
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18:4 |
My ordinances you shall observe and my statutes you shall keep, following them: I am the LORD your God.
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18:5 |
You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the LORD.
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18:6 |
None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to uncover nakedness: I am the LORD.
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18:7 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
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18:8 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is the nakedness of your father.
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18:9 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born abroad.
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18:10 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
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18:11 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your sister.
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18:12 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's flesh.
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18:13 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's flesh.
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18:14 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
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18:15 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
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18:16 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.
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18:17 |
You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your flesh; it is depravity.
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18:18 |
And you shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.
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18:19 |
You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
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18:20 |
You shall not have sexual relations with your kinsman's wife, and defile yourself with her.
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18:21 |
You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
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18:22 |
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
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18:23 |
You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion.
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18:24 |
Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.
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18:25 |
Thus the land became defiled; and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
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18:26 |
But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none of these abominations, either the citizen or the alien who resides among you
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18:27 |
(for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);
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18:28 |
otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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18:29 |
For whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from their people.
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18:30 |
So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you, and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.
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