Old Testament · Law

Leviticus chapter 18

spoke to Moses:“Tell the Israelites: I am Yahweh your God.Don’t do what they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and don’t do what they do in Canaan, where I’m bringing you. Don’t follow their .Follow my and keep my . I am Yahweh your God.Keep my standards and guidelines—the person who lives by them will through them. I am Yahweh.No one should a to have sex with them. I am Yahweh.Don’t have sex with your mother—she’s your mother. Don’t by doing this to her.Don’t have sex with your —that dishonors your father.Don’t have sex with your sister—whether she’s your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was raised in your household or somewhere else.Don’t have sex with your granddaughter—whether she’s your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter. That would be .Don’t have sex with a half-sister born to your father’s wife—she’s your sister.Don’t have sex with your father’s sister—she’s your father’s close relative.Don’t have sex with your mother’s sister—she’s your mother’s close relative.Don’t dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife for sex—she’s your aunt.Don’t have sex with your daughter-in-law—she’s your son’s wife. Don’t do this.Don’t have sex with your brother’s wife—that dishonors your brother.Don’t have sex with both a woman and her daughter, and don’t have sex with her granddaughter—whether her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter. They’re her close relatives. This is .Don’t marry your wife’s sister as a while your wife is still alive, having sex with her too.Don’t approach a woman for sex during her monthly period when she is in her .Don’t have sex with your neighbor’s wife, making yourself through her.Don’t give any of your children to be sacrificed to . Don’t . I am Yahweh.Don’t have sex with a man the way you would with a woman. That is something .Don’t have sex with any animal, making yourself corrupted through it. A woman must not present herself to an animal for sex. It is a .Don’t make yourselves by any of these things. The nations I’m driving out ahead of you became corrupted by all of them.The land itself became corrupted, so I am for its wrongdoing, and the land is the people living in it.But you—keep my standards and guidelines. Don’t commit any of these detestable acts—whether you’re native-born or an .Because the people who lived in the land before you committed all these detestable acts, and the land became corrupted.If you corrupt the land, it will vomit you out just like it vomited out the nations before you.Anyone who commits any of these detestable acts will be .So keep my and don’t follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came. Don’t make yourselves corrupted through them. I am Yahweh your God.”