{"book":"Leviticus","slug":"leviticus","ch":18,"genre":"prose","sub":"Leviticus","prev":"leviticus/17","next":"leviticus/19","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Then the LORD said to Moses,","f":[],"h":"Unlawful Sexual Relations","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"“ Speak to the Israelites [and] tell them: I am the LORD your God.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, [and you must not follow] the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.","f":[]},{"v":4,"t":"You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"Keep My statutes and My judgments, [for] the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.","f":["Cited in Romans 10:5 and Galatians 3:12; see also Ezekiel 20:11, 13, and 21."]},{"v":6,"t":"None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.","f":["Literally to uncover (their) nakedness; here and throughout this chapter"],"style":"reg"},{"v":7,"t":"You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":8,"t":"You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":10,"t":"You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":11,"t":"You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":12,"t":"You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":13,"t":"You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":14,"t":"You must not {dishonor} your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she [is] your aunt.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":15,"t":"You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":16,"t":"You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":17,"t":"You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":18,"t":"You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":19,"t":"You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":20,"t":"You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":21,"t":"You must 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.","f":["Hebrew to make them pass through (the fire)"],"style":"reg"},{"v":22,"t":"You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that [is] an abomination.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":23,"t":"You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":24,"t":"Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":25,"t":"Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.","f":[]},{"v":26,"t":"But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations — neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":27,"t":"For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.","f":[]},{"v":28,"t":"So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.","f":[]},{"v":29,"t":"Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":30,"t":"You must keep My charge not to practice [any] of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”","f":[]}]}