Thematic Bible
Leviticus 18:1 (show verse)
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Leviticus 18:2 (show verse)
"Speak to the {Israelites}, and say to them, 'I [am] Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 18:3 (show verse)
You must not {carry out} the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, and you must not {carry out} the practices of the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you; and you must not follow their statutes.
Leviticus 18:4 (show verse)
You must {carry out} my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I [am] Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 18:5 (show verse)
And you shall observe my statutes and my regulations {by which the person doing them shall live}; I [am] Yahweh.
Leviticus 18:6 (show verse)
" '{None} [of] you shall approach anyone [who is] {his close relative} to expose nakedness; I [am] Yahweh.
Leviticus 18:7 (show verse)
You must not expose your father's nakedness or your mother's nakedness--she [is] your mother; you must not expose her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:8 (show verse)
You must not expose the nakedness of your father's wife--it is your father's nakedness.
Leviticus 18:9 (show verse)
[As for] your sister's nakedness, [whether] your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, [whether] {born at home} or {born abroad}, you must not expose their nakedness.
Leviticus 18:10 (show verse)
[As for] the nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, you must not expose their nakedness, because they [are] your nakedness.
Leviticus 18:11 (show verse)
[As for] the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife, she [is] your sister, a relative of your father; you must not expose her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:12 (show verse)
You must not expose the nakedness of your father's sister; she [is] {your father's close relative}.
Leviticus 18:13 (show verse)
You must not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister, because she [is] {your mother's close relative}.
Leviticus 18:14 (show verse)
You must not expose the nakedness of your father's brother; you must not {have sex with} his wife--she [is] your aunt.
Leviticus 18:15 (show verse)
You must not expose your daughter-in-law's nakedness; she [is] your son's wife; you must not expose her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:16 (show verse)
You must not expose the nakedness of your brother's wife; she [is] your brother's nakedness.
Leviticus 18:17 (show verse)
You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter; you must not take [her as wife] to expose her nakedness; they [are] {close relatives}--that [is] wickedness.
Leviticus 18:18 (show verse)
And you must not take [as wife] a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her {during} her life.
Leviticus 18:19 (show verse)
" 'And you must not {have sex with} a woman to expose her nakedness {during} her menstrual uncleanness.
Leviticus 18:20 (show verse)
And {you must not have sex} with your fellow citizen's wife, becoming unclean with her.
Leviticus 18:21 (show verse)
" 'And you shall not give {any of} your offspring in order to sacrifice [them] to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I [am] Yahweh.
Leviticus 18:22 (show verse)
And you shall not lie with a male as lying {with} a woman; that [is] a detestable thing.
Leviticus 18:23 (show verse)
And you shall not {have sexual relations} with any animal, becoming unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand {before} an animal to copulate with it--that [is] a perversion.
Leviticus 18:24 (show verse)
" 'You must not make yourself unclean in any of these [things], because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these.
Leviticus 18:25 (show verse)
So the land became unclean, and {I have brought the punishment of} its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 18:26 (show verse)
But you ([neither] the native nor the alien who is dwelling in your midst) shall keep my statutes and my regulations, and you shall not {practice} any of these detestable things
Leviticus 18:27 (show verse)
(because the people of the land, who [were] {before you}, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),
Leviticus 18:28 (show verse)
so that the land will not vomit you out when you make it unclean [just] as it vomited out the nation that [was] {before you}.
Leviticus 18:29 (show verse)
Indeed, anyone who does any of these detestable things, even those persons who do so shall be cut off from the midst of their people.
Leviticus 18:30 (show verse)
Thus you shall keep my obligation to not do any of the statutes {regarding} the detestable things that they did {before you}, so that you will not make yourselves unclean by them; I [am] Yahweh your God.'"