| 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, | |
| 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: I am Yahweh, your God. | |
| 3 You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you used to live, nor shall you do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not follow their practices. | |
| 4 My practices instead you will follow, and you will carry out my ordinances; I am Yahweh your God. | |
| 5 Keep my practices and ordinances, for whoever keeps them finds life; I am Yahweh. | |
| 6 None of you shall have sexual intercourse with a blood relative; I am Yahweh. | |
| 7 Do not have intercourse with your father or your mother; she is your mother, don’t have intercourse with her. | |
| 8 Do not have intercourse with your father’s wife: Respect your father. | |
| 9 Do not have intercourse with your sister or your stepsister, whether born in the same house or elsewhere. | |
| 10 Do not have intercourse with your granddaughter; that would dishonor you. | |
| 11 Do not have intercourse with a half sister; she, too, is your sister. | |
| 12 Do not have intercourse with an aunt, whether she is your father’s sister | |
| 13 or your mother’s sister. | |
| 14 Do not have intercourse with your uncle’s wife; she, too, is your aunt. | |
| 15 Do not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law | |
| 16 or with your brother’s wife. | |
| 17 Do not have intercourse with both a woman and her daughter or her granddaughter; they are blood relatives; that is wickedness. | |
| 18 While your wife is living, do not take her sister as a wife so that you make her jealous. | |
| 19 Do not have intercourse with a woman during her monthly period. | |
| 20 Do not have intercourse with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her. | |
| 21 Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech and do not profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh. | |
| 22 Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination. | |
| 23 Also do not have sexual relations with an animal; that is infamous. | |
| 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways for this is how the nations I am driving out before you, became defiled. | |
| 25 As the land was defiled I came to punish it, and it has vomited out its inhabitants. | |
| 26 You shall keep my practices and ordinances, and you shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the alien living among you. | |
| 27 Recall the people who did all these things before you in these lands and became defiled. | |
| 28 If you defile the land it will vomit you out as it did the nations before you. | |
| 29 The one who does any of these abominations shall be cut off from his people. | |
| 30 Keep my laws and do not follow any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them; I am Yahweh, your God.” | |
