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Leviticus 18 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Lev 18:1The LORD said to Moshe,
Lev 18:2"Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and say to them, 'I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:3You shall not do as they do in the land of Mitzrayim, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Kana`an, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.
Lev 18:4You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:6"'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:7"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
Lev 18:8"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
Lev 18:9"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.
Lev 18:10"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.
Lev 18:11"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister. "'
Lev 18:12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.
Lev 18:13"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
Lev 18:14"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.
Lev 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.
Lev 18:16"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
Lev 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.
Lev 18:18"'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
Lev 18:19"'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
Lev 18:20"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
Lev 18:21"'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molekh; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:22"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestible.
Lev 18:23"'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
Lev 18:24"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
Lev 18:25The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants.
Lev 18:26You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;
Lev 18:27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);
Lev 18:28that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Lev 18:29"'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lev 18:30Therefore you shall keep my charge, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am the LORD your God.'"
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