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18:1  The Lord said to Moses,
18:2  “Say to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord your God.
18:3  Do not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived. And do not do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you. Do not follow their laws.
18:4  You are to do what I say and keep My Laws and live by them. I am the Lord your God.
18:5  So keep My Laws and do what I say. If a man obeys them, My Laws will be life for him. I am the Lord.
18:6  ‘You should not go near a person of your own family to have sex. I am the Lord.
18:7  Do not put your father to shame by taking the clothes off your mother. She is your mother. Do not take her clothes off.
18:8  Do not take the clothes off your father’s wife. Her body is for your father.
18:9  Do not take the clothes off your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, if she is born at home or away from home.
18:10  Do not take the clothes off your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter. For they are of your own family.
18:11  Do not take the clothes off your father’s wife’s daughter, born to your father. She is your sister.
18:12  Do not take the clothes off your father’s sister. She is of your father’s own family.
18:13  Do not take the clothes off your mother’s sister. She is of your mother’s own family.
18:14  Do not put your father’s brother to shame. Do not go near to take the clothes off his wife. She is of your family.
18:15  Do not take the clothes off your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. Do not take her clothes off.
18:16  Do not take the clothes off your brother’s wife. Her body is for your brother.
18:17  Do not take the clothes off a woman and her daughter. And do not take the clothes off her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter. They are of her own family. It is sin.
18:18  While your wife is still living do not marry her sister making her as important to you. Do not take off her sister’s clothes.
18:19  ‘And you are not to go near a woman to take off her clothes during the time when she has a flow of blood.
18:20  Do not have sex with your neighbor’s wife. You would be unclean.
18:21  Do not give any of your children as a gift on an altar to the false god Molech. Do not put the name of your God to shame. I am the Lord.
18:22  Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman. It is a sinful thing.
18:23  Do not have sex with any animal, or you will be unclean. And no woman should give herself to an animal to lie with it. It is a sin.
18:24  ‘Do not allow yourself to sin in any of these ways. For by doing all these things the nations that I am driving out in front of you became unclean.
18:25  For the land is unclean. So I have punished its sin. The land has spit out its people.
18:26  But as for you, you are to keep My Laws and do what I have decided. Do not do any of these sinful things, not you or the man who lives among you from another land.
18:27  For the men who have lived in the land before you have done all of these sinful things. The land is unclean.
18:28  Do none of these things or the land will spit you out when you make it sinful, as it has spit out the nation that was before you.
18:29  Whoever does any of these sinful things will be cut off from his people.
18:30  So do what I say. Do not do any of these sinful things that were done before you. Do not make yourselves sin by doing them. I am the Lord your God.’”