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Leviticus 18:13-24 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.

14. You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not have sex with his wife—she is your aunt.

15. You must not expose your daughter-in-law’s nakedness; she is your son’s wife; you must not expose her nakedness.

16. You must not expose the nakedness of your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.

17. You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter; you must not take her as wife to expose her nakedness; they are close relatives—that is wickedness.

18. And you must not take as wife a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her during her life.

19. “ ‘And you must not have sex with a woman to expose her nakedness during her menstrual uncleanness.

20. And you must not have sex with your fellow citizen’s wife, becoming unclean with her.

21. “ ‘And you shall not give any of your offspring in order to sacrifice them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.

22. And you shall not lie with a male as lying with a woman; that is a detestable thing.

23. And you shall not have sexual relations with any animal, becoming unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand before an animal to copulate with it—that is a perversion.

24. “ ‘You must not make yourself unclean in any of these things, because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these.

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