Leviticus 18

1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.

“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God.

3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein all of you dwelt, shall all of you not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you, shall all of you not do: neither shall all of you walk in their ordinances.

You must not do the things that the people do in Egypt, where you lived previously. You must not do the things that the people do in Canaan, the land to which I am taking you. Do not follow their customs.

4 All of you shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.

My laws are what you must do, and my commandments are what you must keep, so that you walk in them, because I am Yahweh your God.

5 All of you shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Therefore you must keep my decrees and my laws. If a person obeys them, he will live because of them. I am Yahweh.

6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.

No one must sleep with any close relative to uncover his nakedness. I am Yahweh.

7 The nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother, shall you not uncover: she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Do not dishonor your father by sleeping with your mother. She is your mother! You must not dishonor her.

8 The nakedness of your father's wife shall you not uncover: it is your father's nakedness.

Do not sleep with any of your father's wives; you must not dishonor your father like that.

9 The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or daughter of your mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness you shall not uncover.

Do not sleep with any sister of yours, whether she is the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether she was raised at your home or distant from you. You must not sleep with your sisters.

10 The nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness you shall not uncover: for theirs is your own nakedness.

Do not sleep with your son's daughter or with your daughter's daughter. That would be your own shame.

11 The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten of your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Do not sleep with your father's wife's daughter, who was born of your father. She is your sister, and you must not sleep with her.

12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.

Do not sleep with your father's sister. She is a close relative to your father.

13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.

Do not sleep with your mother's sister. She is a close relative to your mother.

14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach to his wife: she is your aunt.

Do not dishonor the brother of your father by sleeping with his wife. Do not go near her for that purpose; she is your aunt.

15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter in law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Do not sleep with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not sleep with her.

16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

Do not sleep with your brother's wife; do not dishonor him in this way.

17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shall you take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

Do not sleep with a woman and her daughter, or with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter. They are close relatives to her, and sleeping with them would be wicked.

18 Neither shall you take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

You must not marry your wife's sister as a second wife and sleep with her while your first wife is alive.

19 Also you shall not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

Do not sleep with a woman during her menstruation. She is unclean during that time.

20 Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbour's wife, to defile yourself with her.

Do not sleep with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her in this way.

21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

You must not give any of your children to put them into the fire, so that you sacrifice them to Molech, because you must not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

22 You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Do not sleep with other men as with a woman. This would be wicked.

23 Neither shall you lie with any beast to defile yourself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

Do not sleep with any animal and defile yourself with it. No woman must consider sleeping with any animal. This would be perversion.

24 Defile not all of you yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations are defiled, the nations that I will drive out from before you.

25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.

The land became defiled, so I punished their sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

26 All of you shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourns among you:

You, therefore, must keep my commandments and decrees, and you must not do any of these detestable things, neither the native-born Israelite nor the foreigner who lives among you.

27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled; )

For this is the wickedness that the people in the land have committed, those who lived here before you, and now the land is defiled.

28 That the land spew not you out also, when all of you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.

Therefore be careful so that the land does not vomit you up also after you have defiled it, as it vomited out the people who were before you.

29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

Whoever does any of these detestable things, the persons who do such things will be cut off from among their people.

30 Therefore shall all of you keep mine ordinance, that all of you commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that all of you defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

Therefore you must keep my command not to practice any of these detestable customs which were practiced here before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am Yahweh your God.'”