18:1 The LORD said to Moses,
18:2 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the LORD your God.
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.
18:4 You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God.
18:5 Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
18:6 ‘No-one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
18:7 ‘Do not dishonour your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother do not have relations with her.
18:8 ‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife that would dishonour your father.
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.
18:10 ‘Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter that would dishonour you.
18:11 ‘Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father she is your sister.
18:12 ‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister she is your father’s close relative.
18:13 ‘Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.
18:14 ‘Do not dishonour your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations she is your aunt.
18:15 ‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife do not have relations with her.
18:16 ‘Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife that would dishonour your brother.
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.
18:18 ‘Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
18:19 ‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
18:20 ‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbour’s wife and defile yourself with her.
18:21 ‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed [Or to be passed through the fire] to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
18:22 ‘Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman that is detestable.
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.
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.
18:25 Even the land was defiled so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
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,
18:27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.
18:28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
18:29 ‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things such persons must be cut off from their people.
18:30 Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practised before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.’