Leviticus 18

1 The Lord told Moses,

And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

2 “Tell the Israelites: I am the Lord your God.

“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: I [am] your God YHWH;

3 Don't follow the ways of Egypt where you used to live, and don't follow the ways of Canaan where I'm going to take you. Don't adopt their practices.

you do not do according to the work of the land of Egypt in which you have dwelt, and you do not do according to the work of the land of Canaan to where I am bringing you in, and you do not walk in their statutes.

4 Do what I tell you and keep my rules. I am the Lord your God.

You do My judgments and you keep My statutes, to walk in them; I [am] your God YHWH.

5 If you keep my rules and do what I tell you, you will live. I am the Lord.

And you have kept My statutes and My judgments which man does and lives in them; I [am] YHWH.

6 Don't have sex with a close relative.

None of you draws near to any relation of his flesh to uncover nakedness; I [am] YHWH.

7 Don't shame your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother; don't have sex with her.

You do not uncover the nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother, she [is] your mother; you do not uncover her nakedness.

8 Don't have sex with any of your father's wives and shame your father.

You do not uncover the nakedness of the wife of your father; it [is] the nakedness of your father.

9 Don't have sex with your sister, whether she's your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, or whether she was born in the same house as you or somewhere else.

The nakedness of your sister, daughter of your father, or daughter of your mother, born at home or born outside—you do not uncover their nakedness.

10 Don't have sex with your granddaughter, your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, because that would be shameful thing for you.

The nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter—you do not uncover their nakedness; for theirs [is] your nakedness.

11 Don't have sex with the daughter of any of your father's wives and your father, she is your sister.

The nakedness of a daughter of your father’s wife, begotten of your father, she [is] your sister—you do not uncover her nakedness.

12 Don't have sex with your father's sister. She is a close relative of your father.

You do not uncover the nakedness of a sister of your father; she [is] a relation of your father.

13 Don't have sex with your mother's sister. She is a close relative of your mother.

You do not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she [is] your mother’s relation.

14 Don't bring shame on your uncle by having sex with his wife. She is your aunt.

You do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; you do not draw near to his wife; she [is] your aunt.

15 Don't have sex with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. Don't have sex with her.

You do not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she [is] your son’s wife; you do not uncover her nakedness.

16 Don't have sex with your brother's wife and bring shame on your brother.

You do not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it [is] your brother’s nakedness.

17 Don't have sex with both a woman and her daughter. Don't have sex with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter. They are her close relatives. That is something I loathe.

You do not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, nor do you take her son’s daughter and her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they [are] her relations; it [is] wickedness.

18 Don't marry your wife's sister and have sex with her while your wife is still alive. They will be hostile wives to one other.

And you do not take a woman [in addition] to her sister, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

19 Don't have sex with a woman during the time she is unclean because of her period.

And you do not draw near to a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.

20 Don't commit any sex act with any other man's wife. This would pollute you and make you unclean.

And you do not give your seed [from] intercourse to the wife of your fellow, to become unclean with her.

21 Don't give any of your children as a human sacrifice to Molech, for you must not disgrace the character of your God. I am the Lord.

And you do not give from your seed to pass over to the Molech, nor do you defile the Name of your God; I [am] YHWH.

22 Don't have sex with a man as with a woman. That is something disgusting.

And you do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it [is] an abomination.

23 Don't have sex with any animal. This would pollute you and make you unclean.

And you do not commit your intercourse with any beast, to become unclean with it; and a woman does not stand before a beast to mate with it; it [is] perversion.

24 A woman must not give herself to an animal to have sex with it. That is something disgusting. Don't pollute yourselves and make yourselves unclean by doing anything like this. That's the reason I'm expelling these nations from the land—they polluted themselves because of all these practices.

Do not defile yourselves with all these, for with all these the nations have been defiled which I am sending away from before you;

25 Even the land has become polluted, so I am punishing it for the sins committed by the people who live there, and the land will vomit them out.

and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity on it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.

26 You, however, must do what I tell you and keep my rules. You must not do any of these disgusting acts, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you.

And you have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not do [any] of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,

27 The people who lived in the land before you practiced all these disgusting things, and the land became polluted.

for the men of the land who [are] before you have done all these abominations and the land is defiled,

28 If you pollute the land, it will vomit you out just like it did the nations before you.

and the land does not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it has vomited out the nation which [is] before you;

29 Consequently anyone who does any of these disgusting things must be expelled from their people.

for anyone who does [any] of all these abominations—even the persons who are doing [so]—have been cut off from the midst of their people;

30 You must accept my demand that you don't follow any of these disgusting practices done before you arrived. Don't pollute yourselves and make yourselves unclean. I am the Lord your God.”

and you have kept My charge, so as not to do [any] of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and you do not defile yourselves with them; I [am] your God YHWH.”