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18. Unlawful Sexual Relations

    ⁶ “‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

    ⁷ “‘Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.

    ⁸ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

    ⁹ “‘Do 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.

    ¹⁰ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; that would dishonor you.

    ¹¹ “‘Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

    ¹² “‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

    ¹³ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.

    ¹⁴ “‘Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

    ¹⁵ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; do not have relations with her.

    ¹⁶ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

    ¹⁷ “‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

    ¹⁸ “‘Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

    ¹⁹ “‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

    ²⁰ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

    ²¹ “‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

    ²² “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

    ²³ “‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

    ²⁴ “‘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. ²⁵ Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶ But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things, ²⁷ for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. ²⁸ And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

    ²⁹ “‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people. ³⁰ 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.’”