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Vayikra 18:19-30 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

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;

25. And HaAretz became tamei; therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and HaAretz itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

26. Ye shall therefore be shomer over My chukkot and My mishpatim, and shall not commit any of these to'evot; no, neither any of your ezrach, nor any ger that sojourneth among you;

27. (For all these to'evot have the anshei HaAretz done, which were before you, and HaAretz is tamei;)

28. That HaAretz vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the Goyim that were before you.

29. For whosoever shall commit any of these to'evot, even the nefashot that commit them shall be cut off (i.e., suffer the death penalty [see Daniel 9:26 regarding Moshiach's death penalty] from among their people.

30. Therefore shall ye be shomer over My charge, that ye commit not any one of these chukkot hato'evot, which were committed before you, and that ye make not yourselves tamei therein: I am Hashem Eloheichem.

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