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| | Lev 18:1 | The LORD said to Moses,
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| | Lev 18:2 | "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: `I am the LORD your God.
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| | Lev 18:3 | You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.
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| | Lev 18:4 | You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God.
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| | Lev 18:5 | Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
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| | Lev 18:6 | "`No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
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| | Lev 18:7 | "`Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.
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| | Lev 18:8 | "`Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.
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| | Lev 18:9 | "`Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
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| | Lev 18:10 | "`Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you.
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| | Lev 18:11 | "`Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
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| | Lev 18:12 | "`Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.
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| | Lev 18:13 | "`Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
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| | Lev 18:14 | "`Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.
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| | Lev 18:15 | "`Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.
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| | Lev 18:16 | "`Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother.
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| | Lev 18:17 | "`Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.
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| | Lev 18:18 | "`Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
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| | Lev 18:19 | "`Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
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| | Lev 18:20 | "`Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.
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| | Lev 18:21 | "`Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
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| | Lev 18:22 | "`Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
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| | Lev 18:23 | "`Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
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| | Lev 18:24 | "`Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.
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| | Lev 18:25 | Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
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| | Lev 18:26 | But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things,
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| | Lev 18:27 | for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.
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| | Lev 18:28 | And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
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| | Lev 18:29 | "`Everyone who does any of these detestable things--such persons must be cut off from their people.
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| | Lev 18:30 | Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.'"
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