Leviticus 18
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Leviticus 18
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| And the Lord said to Moses, | And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
| Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God. | Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am Jehovah your God. |
| You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules. | After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their statutes. |
| But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God. | Mine ordinances shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God. |
| So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord. | Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah. |
| You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord. | None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am Jehovah. |
| You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her. | The nakedness of thy father, even the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. |
| And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's. | The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. |
| You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country. | The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or the daughter of thy mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. |
| You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself; | The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness. |
| Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister. | The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. |
| You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation. | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman. |
| You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation. | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman. |
| You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family; | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt. |
| Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her. | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. |
| You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's. | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness. |
| You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame. | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness. |
| And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time. | And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time. |
| And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time. | And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. |
| And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her. | And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her. |
| And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord. | And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah. |
| You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing. | Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. |
| And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act. | And thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto: it is confusion. |
| Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: | Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; |
| And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it. | And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants. |
| So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you: | Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you; |
| (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;) | (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled); |
| So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you. | that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. |
| For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people. | For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. |
| So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God. | Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God. |
