16. “You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife. That would be like having sexual relations with your brother.
17. “You must not have sexual relations with a mother and her daughter or her granddaughter. It doesn’t matter if this granddaughter is the daughter of this woman’s son or daughter. Her granddaughters are her close relatives. It is wrong to do this.
18. “While your wife is still living, you must not take her sister as another wife. This will make the sisters become enemies. You must not have sexual relations with your wife’s sister.
19. “You must not go near a woman to have sexual relations with her during her monthly time of bleeding. She is unclean during this time.
20. “You must not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife. This will only make you filthy.
21. “You must not give any of your children through the fire to Molech. If you do this, you will show that you don’t respect the name of your God. I am the Lord.
22. “Men, you must not have sexual relations with another man as with a woman. That is a terrible sin!
23. “Men, you must not have sexual relations with any animal. This will make you filthy. And women, you must not have sexual relations with any animal. It is against nature!
24. “Don’t make yourself unclean by doing any of these wrong things! I am throwing nations off their land and giving it to you because they did those terrible sins.
25. They made the land filthy. Now the land is sick of those things, and it will vomit out the people who live there.
26. “So you must obey my laws and rules. You must not do any of these terrible sins. These rules are for the citizens of Israel and the people living among you.
27. Those who lived in the land before you have done all these terrible things. So the land became filthy.