Leviticus 18
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Then the LORD said to Moses,
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.
2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.
3You 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.
3You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you, nor shall you walk in their ordinances.
4You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
4You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
5Keep my laws and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord.
6None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
6No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.
7You 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.
7Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
8Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.
9You 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.
9Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother, whether born at home or abroad.
10You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.
10Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or thy daughter’s daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.
11You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
11Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, whom she bore to thy father, and who is thy sister.
12You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
12Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: because she is the flesh of thy father.
13You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
13Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: because she is thy mother’s flesh.
14You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.
14Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother: neither shalt thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by affinity.
15You 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.
15Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: because she is thy son’s wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.
16You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother.
17You 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.
17Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her daughter. Thou shalt not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest.
18You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
18Thou shalt not take thy wife’s sister for a harlot, to rival her, neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.
19You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
19Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers, neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.
20You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
20Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour’s wife, nor be defiled with mingling of seed.
21You 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.
21Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
22You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
22Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination.
23You 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.
23Thou shalt not copulate with any beast, neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.
24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
24Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,
25Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
25And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.
26But 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.
26Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments, and do not any of these abominations: neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.
27For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
27For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that; were before you, and have defiled it.
28So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
28Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
29Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.
30You 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.”
30Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.
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