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Vayikra 18:17-24 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

17. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of an isha and her bat, neither shalt thou take the bat of her ben, or the bat of her bat, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is zimmah (wickedness).

18. Neither shalt thou take your wife's achot (sister), to be a rival wife, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.

19. Also thou shalt not approach unto an isha to uncover her nakedness, as long as she has her tumah from her period of niddah.

20. Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife. You shall not give your shikhvat zera to make tamei with her.

21. And thou shalt not let any of thy zera pass through [the eish, i.e., be sacrificed and burned or cremated] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the Shem Eloheicha; I am Hashem.

22. Thou shalt not lie with zachar, as with isha: it is to'evah (abomination, detestable)

23. Neither shalt thou lie with any behemah. You shall not give your shikhvat to make tamei with it; neither shall any isha present herself to a behemah to have relations with it: it is tevel (perversion).

24. Make not yourselves tamei in any of these things; for in all these the Goyim which I cast out before you became tamei;

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