Leviticus 18 — FBV

18Verse 1The Lord told Moses,^{Verse 2}“Tell the Israelites: I am the Lord your God.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 4}Do what I tell you and keep my rules. I am the Lord your God.^{Verse 5}If you keep my rules and do what I tell you, you will live. I am the Lord.^{Verse 6}Don't have sex with a close relative.^{Verse 7}Don't shame your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother; don't have sex with her.^{Verse 8}Don't have sex with any of your father's wives and shame your father.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 10}Don't have sex with your granddaughter, your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, because that would be a shameful thing for you.^{Verse 11}Don't have sex with the daughter of any of your father's wives or the daughter of your father. She is your sister.^{Verse 12}Don't have sex with your father's sister. She is a close relative of your father.^{Verse 13}Don't have sex with your mother's sister. She is a close relative of your mother.^{Verse 14}Don't bring shame on your uncle by having sex with his wife. She is your aunt.^{Verse 15}Don't have sex with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. Don't have sex with her.^{Verse 16}Don't have sex with your brother's wife and bring shame on your brother.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 19}Don't have sex with a woman during the time she is unclean because of her period.^{Verse 20}Don't commit any sex act with any other man's wife. This would pollute you and make you unclean.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 22}Don't have sex with a man as with a woman. That is something disgusting.^{Verse 23}Don't have sex with any animal. This would pollute you and make you unclean.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 27}The people who lived in the land before you practiced all these disgusting things, and the land became polluted.^{Verse 28}If you pollute the land, it will vomit you out just like it did the nations before you.^{Verse 29}Consequently anyone who does any of these disgusting things must be expelled from their people.^{Verse 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.”