LEVITICUS 18 (NIV)
- The Lord said to Moses,
- "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the Lord your God.
- You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.
- You must obey my law and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the Lord your God.
- Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the Lord.
- "'No one is to approach any close relatve to have seual relations. I am the Lord.
- "'Do not dishonor your father by having seual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.
- "'Do not have seual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.
- "'Do not have seual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
- "'Do not have seual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you.
- "'Do not have seual relation with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
- "'Do not have seual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's fclose relative.
- "'Do not have seual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
- "'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have seual relations; she is your aunt.
- "'Do not have seual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.
- "'Do not have seual relations with your brother's wife, that would dishonor your brother.
- "'Do not have seual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have seual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.
- "'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have seual relations with her while your wife is living.
- "'Do not approach a woman to have seual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
- "'Do not have seual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.
- "'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.
- "'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
- "'Do not have seual relations with an animal and defiel yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have seual relations with it; that is a perversion.
- "'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.
- Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
- But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things,
- for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.
- And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
- "'Everyone who does any of these detestable things - such persons must be cut off from their people.
- Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.'"