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Leviticus 18 :: King James Version (KJV)

Lev 18:1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 18:2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:3After 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 ordinances.
Lev 18:4Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:6None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:7The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Lev 18:8The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Lev 18:9The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
Lev 18:10The 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.
Lev 18:11The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Lev 18:12Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
Lev 18:13Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
Lev 18:14Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
Lev 18:15Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Lev 18:16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Lev 18:17Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Lev 18:18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Lev 18:19Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
Lev 18:20Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
Lev 18:21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Lev 18:23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Lev 18:24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Lev 18:25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Lev 18:26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Lev 18:27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
Lev 18:28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Lev 18:29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lev 18:30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
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