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| | Lev 18:1 | And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
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| | Lev 18:2 | `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, I `am' Jehovah your God;
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| | Lev 18:3 | according to the work of the land of Egypt in which ye have dwelt ye do not, and according to the work of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you in, ye do not, and in their statutes ye walk not.
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| | Lev 18:4 | `My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I `am' Jehovah your God;
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| | Lev 18:5 | and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I `am' Jehovah.
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| | Lev 18:6 | `None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I `am' Jehovah.
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| | Lev 18:7 | `The nakedness of thy father and the nakedness of thy mother thou dost not uncover, she `is' thy mother; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.
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| | Lev 18:8 | `The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it `is' the nakedness of thy father.
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| | Lev 18:9 | `The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born without; thou dost not uncover their nakedness.
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| | Lev 18:10 | `The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter: thou dost not uncover their nakedness; for theirs `is' thy nakedness.
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| | Lev 18:11 | `The nakedness of a daughter of thy father's wife, begotten of thy father, she `is' thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.
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| | Lev 18:12 | `The nakedness of a sister of thy father thou dost not uncover; she `is' a relation of thy father.
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| | Lev 18:13 | `The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou dost not uncover; for she `is' thy mother's relation.
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| | Lev 18:14 | `The nakedness of thy father's brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she `is' thine aunt.
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| | Lev 18:15 | `The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she `is' thy son's wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.
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| | Lev 18:16 | `The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it `is' thy brother's nakedness.
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| | Lev 18:17 | `The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they `are' her relations; it `is' wickedness.
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| | Lev 18:18 | `And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.
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| | Lev 18:19 | `And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.
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| | Lev 18:20 | `And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.
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| | Lev 18:21 | `And of thy seed thou dost not give to pass over to the Molech; nor dost thou pollute the name of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.
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| | Lev 18:22 | `And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it `is'.
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| | Lev 18:23 | `And with any beast thou dost not give thy copulation, for uncleanness with it; and a woman doth not stand before a beast to lie down with it; confusion it `is'.
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| | Lev 18:24 | `Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;
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| | Lev 18:25 | and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:
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| | Lev 18:26 | and ye -- ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not `any' of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,
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| | Lev 18:27 | (for all these abominations have the men of the land done who `are' before you, and the land is defiled),
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| | Lev 18:28 | and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which `is' before you;
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| | Lev 18:29 | for any one who doth `any' of all these abominations -- even the persons who are doing `so', have been cut off from the midst of their people;
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| | Lev 18:30 | and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do `any' of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I `am' Jehovah your God.'
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