Leviticus 18

¹And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

²Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I the Lord your God,

³according to the custom of the Land of Ægypt, wherein you have dwelt, you shall not do: and according to the manner of the Country of Chanaan, into the which I will bring you, you shall not do, nor walk in their ordinances.

⁴You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I the Lord your God.

⁵Keep my laws and judgments, which a man doing, shall live in them. I the Lord.

⁶No man shall approach to her that is next of his blood, to reveal her turpitude. I the Lord.

⁷The turpitude of thy father, and the turpitude of thy mother thou shalt not discover: she is thy mother, thou shalt not reveal her turpitude.

⁸The turpitude of thy father's wife thou shalt not discover: for it is the turpitude of thy father:

⁹The turpitude of thy sister by father, or by mother, which was born at home or abroad, thou shalt not reveal.

¹⁰The turpitude of thy son's daughter or of thy niece by the daughter, thou shalt not reveal: because it is thy turpitude.

¹¹The turpitude of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, and is thy sister, thou shalt not reveal.

¹²The turpitude of thy father's sister thou shalt not discover: because she is the flesh of thy father.

¹³The turpitude of thy mother's sister thou shalt not reveal, because she is of the flesh of thy mother.

¹⁴The turpitude of thy father's brother thou shalt not reveal, neither shall thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by affinity.

¹⁵The turpitude of thy daughter in law thou shalt not reveal, because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her ignominy.

¹⁶The turpitude of thy brother's wife thou shalt not reveal: because it is the turpitude of thy brother.

¹⁷The turpitude of thy wife, and her daughter thou shalt not reveal. Her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, thou shalt not take, to reveal her ignominy: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest.

¹⁸Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for an harlot, to vex her withal, neither shalt thou reveal her turpitude, while she is yet living.

¹⁹To a woman, having her flowers, thou shalt not approach, neither shalt thou reveal her turpitude.

²⁰With thy neighbour's wife thou shalt not company, nor be polluted with commixtion of seed.

²¹Of thy seed thou shalt not give to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor pollute the name of thy God: I the Lord.

²²Company not with mankind, as with womankind, because it is abomination.

²³With no beast shalt thou company, neither shalt thou be polluted with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor company with it: because it is an heinous fact.

²⁴Neither be ye polluted in any of the things wherewith all the nations have been contaminated, which I will cast out before your sight,

²⁵and wherewith the land is polluted: whose abominations I will visit, that it vomit out the inhabitants thereof.

²⁶Keep my ordinances and judgments, and do not any of these abominations, as well the same countryman as the stranger that sojourneth with you.

²⁷For all these execrable things did the inhabitants of the land, that have been before you, and have polluted it.

²⁸Beware therefore lest in like manner it vomit out you also, when you shall do the like things, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

²⁹Every soul, that shall do any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people,

³⁰Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not polluted in them: I the Lord your God.