18:2 "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I, the LORD, am your God.
18:3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you once lived, nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; do not conform to their customs.
18:4 My decrees you shall carry out, and my statutes you shall take care to follow. I, the LORD, am your God.
18:5 Keep, then, my statutes and decrees, for the man who carries them out will find life through them. I am the LORD.
18:6 "None of you shall approach a close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the LORD.
18:7 You shall not disgrace your father by having intercourse with your mother. Besides, since she is your own mother, you shall not have intercourse with her.
18:8 You shall not have intercourse with your father’s wife, for that would be a disgrace to your father.
18:9 You shall not have intercourse with your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in your own household or born elsewhere.
18:10 You shall not have intercourse with your son’s daughter or with your daughter’s daughter, for that would be a disgrace to your own family.
18:11 You shall not have intercourse with the daughter whom your father’s wife bore to him, since she, too, is your sister.
18:12 You shall not have intercourse with your father’s sister, since she is your father’s relative.
18:13 You shall not have intercourse with your mother’s sister, since she is your mother’s relative.
18:14 You shall not disgrace your father’s brother by being intimate with his wife, since she, too, is your aunt.
18:15 You shall not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, and therefore you shall not disgrace her.
18:16 You shall not have intercourse with your brother’s wife, for that would be a disgrace to your brother.
18:17 You shall not have intercourse with a woman and also with her daughter, nor shall you marry and have intercourse with her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; this would be shameful, because they are related to her.
18:18 While your wife is still living you shall not marry her sister as her rival; for thus you would disgrace your first wife.
18:19 "You shall not approach a woman to have intercourse with her while she is unclean from menstruation.
18:20 You shall not have carnal relations with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.
18:21 You shall not offer any of your offspring to be immolated to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the LORD.
18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination.
18:23 You shall not have carnal relations with an animal, defiling yourself with it; nor shall a woman set herself in front of an animal to mate with it; such things are abhorrent.
18:24 "Do not defile yourselves by any of these things by which the nations whom I am driving out of your way have defiled themselves.
18:25 Because their land has become defiled, I am punishing it for its wickedness, by making it vomit out its inhabitants.
18:26 You, however, whether natives or resident aliens, must keep my statutes and decrees forbidding all such abominations
18:27 by which the previous inhabitants defiled the land;
18:28 otherwise the land will vomit you out also for having defiled it, just as it vomited out the nations before you.
18:29 Everyone who does any of these abominations shall be cut off from among his people.
18:30 Heed my charge, then, not to defile yourselves by observing the abominable customs that have been observed before you. I, the LORD, am your God."