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| Leviticus 18:1 | Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, | | And the Lord said to Moses, |
| Leviticus 18:2 | Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, I am Yahweh your God. | | Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God. |
| Leviticus 18:3 | After the doings of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, you shall not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you, you shall not do; neither shall you walk in their statutes. | | 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. |
| Leviticus 18:4 | My ordinances shall you do, and my statutes shall you keep, to walk therein: I am Yahweh your God. | | But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God. |
| Leviticus 18:5 | You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh. | | So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord. |
| Leviticus 18:6 | None of you shall approach to any who are close relatives to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am Yahweh. | | You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord. |
| Leviticus 18:7 | The nakedness of your father, even the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover: she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. | | You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her. |
| Leviticus 18:8 | The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover: it is your father's nakedness. | | And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's. |
| Leviticus 18:9 | The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness you shall not uncover. | | 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. |
| Leviticus 18:10 | The nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness you shall not uncover: for theirs is your own nakedness. | | You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself; |
| Leviticus 18:11 | The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness. | | Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister. |
| Leviticus 18:12 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman. | | You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation. |
| Leviticus 18:13 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman. | | You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation. |
| Leviticus 18:14 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach to his wife: she is your aunt. | | You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family; |
| Leviticus 18:15 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. | | Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her. |
| Leviticus 18:16 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness. | | You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's. |
| Leviticus 18:17 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness. | | 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. |
| Leviticus 18:18 | You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime. | | 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. |
| Leviticus 18:19 | You shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. | | And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time. |
| Leviticus 18:20 | You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her. | | And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her. |
| Leviticus 18:21 | You shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh. | | 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. |
| Leviticus 18:22 | You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. | | You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing. |
| Leviticus 18:23 | You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a animal, to lie down thereto: it is confusion. | | 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. |
| Leviticus 18:24 | Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; | | 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: |
| Leviticus 18:25 | The land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity of it on it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants. | | 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. |
| Leviticus 18:26 | You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger who sojourns among you; | | 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: |
| Leviticus 18:27 | (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled); | | (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;) |
| Leviticus 18:28 | that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. | | 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. |
| Leviticus 18:29 | For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. | | For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people. |
| Leviticus 18:30 | Therefore shall you keep my charge, that you not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you not defile yourselves therein: I am Yahweh your God. | | 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. |
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