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Leviticus 18 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Laws on Immoral Relations

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:1 -

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:2 - “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3 - ‘You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, and you shall not do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes (practices, customs).

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:4 - ‘You are to follow My judgments (precepts, ordinances) and keep My statutes and live by them. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5 - ‘So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which, if a person keeps them, he shall live; I am the LORD.

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‘[fn]No one shall approach any blood relative of his [fn]to uncover nakedness (have intimate relations). I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:7 - ‘You shall not uncover the [fn]nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:8 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, either the daughter of your father or of your mother, whether born at home or born elsewhere.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:10 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; their nakedness you shall not uncover, for they are your own nakedness [that is, your own descendants].

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter; born to your father, she is your sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:12 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s blood relative.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s blood relative.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:14 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother’s wife; you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:16 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:17 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness (have intimate relations with them); they are [her] blood relatives; it is an outrageous offense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18 - ‘You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.

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‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity and ceremonial uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:20 - ‘You shall not have intimate relations with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:21 - ‘You shall not give any of your children to offer them [by fire as a sacrifice] to Molech [the god of the Ammonites], nor shall you profane the name of your God [by honoring idols as gods]. I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - ‘You shall not lie [intimately] with a male as one lies with a female; it is repulsive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:23 - ‘You shall not have intimate relations with any animal to be defiled with it; nor shall a woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

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‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25 - ‘For the land has become defiled; therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - ‘But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments (precepts) and shall not commit any of these repulsive acts, neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives temporarily among you

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for all these repulsive acts have been done by the men who lived in the land before you, and the land has become defiled);

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - [do none of these things] so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:29 - ‘For whoever commits any of these repulsive acts, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people [excluding them from the atonement made for them].

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - ‘So keep My command: do not practice any of the repulsive customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them; I am the LORD your God.’”
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AMP Footnotes
This passage (vv 6-18) states incestuous prohibitions.
This Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations occurs in each verse in the passage.
The father’s nakedness is a reference to his wife in her role as his sexual partner, i.e. the nakedness that belongs to him alone by virtue of their marriage (cf 1 Cor 7:4). Otherwise, the literal meaning would refer to intimate relations with the father himself, including homosexuality. The text itself states that this is not the meaning, especially in 20:11a (The man who lies…has uncovered his father’s nakedness).
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