1 | And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
2 | Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am Jehovah your God. |
3 | 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. |
4 | Mine ordinances shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God. |
5 | Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah. |
6 | None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am Jehovah. |
7 | 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. |
8 | The nakedness of thy father`s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father`s nakedness. |
9 | 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. |
10 | 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. |
11 | The nakedness of thy father`s wife`s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. |
12 | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father`s sister: she is thy father`s near kinswoman. |
13 | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother`s sister: for she is thy mother`s near kinswoman. |
14 | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father`s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt. |
15 | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son`s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. |
16 | Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother`s wife: it is thy brother`s nakedness. |
17 | 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. |
18 | 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. |
19 | And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. |
20 | And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor`s wife, to defile thyself with her. |
21 | 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. |
22 | Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. |
23 | 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. |
24 | Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; |
25 | And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants. |
26 | 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; |
27 | (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled); |
28 | that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. |
29 | For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. |
30 | 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. |