Leviticus 18 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Laws on Immoral Relations

Lev 18:1And the Lord said to Moses,

Lev 18:2Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God.

Lev 18:3You 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.

Lev 18:4

Lev 18:4But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

Lev 18:5

Lev 18:5So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

Lev 18:6

Lev 18:6You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

Lev 18:7

Lev 18:7You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.

Lev 18:8

Lev 18:8And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.

Lev 18:9

Lev 18:9You 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.

Lev 18:10

Lev 18:10You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself;

Lev 18:11

Lev 18:11Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.

Lev 18:12

Lev 18:12You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.

Lev 18:13

Lev 18:13You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.

Lev 18:14

Lev 18:14You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family;

Lev 18:15

Lev 18:15Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

Lev 18:16

Lev 18:16You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

Lev 18:17

Lev 18:17You 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.

Lev 18:18

Lev 18:18And 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.

Lev 18:19

Lev 18:19And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

Lev 18:20

Lev 18:20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

Lev 18:21

Lev 18:21And 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.

Lev 18:22

Lev 18:22You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

Lev 18:23

Lev 18:23And 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.

Lev 18:24

Lev 18:24Do 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:

Lev 18:25

Lev 18:25And 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.

Lev 18:26

Lev 18:26So 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:

Lev 18:27

Lev 18:27(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;)

Lev 18:28

Lev 18:28So 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.

Lev 18:29

Lev 18:29For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

Lev 18:30

Lev 18:30So 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.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Laws on Immoral Relations

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