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