18. ‘And do not take a woman as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive.
19. ‘And do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness in her monthly separation of uncleanness.
20. ‘And do not have intercourse with the wife of your neighbour, to defile yourself with her.
21. ‘And do not give any of your offspring to pass through to Moleḵ. And do not profane the Name of your Elohim. I am יהוה.
22. ‘And do not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination.
23. ‘And do not have intercourse with any beast, to defile yourself with it. And a woman does not stand before a beast to mate with it, it is a perversion.
24. ‘Do not defile yourselves with all these, for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am driving out before you.
25. ‘Thus the land became defiled, therefore I punished it for its crookedness, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26. ‘But you, you shall guard My laws and My right-rulings, and not do any of these abominations, the native nor stranger who sojourns among you,
27. because the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and thus the land became defiled,
28. ‘So let not the land vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
29. ‘For whoever does any of these abominations, those beings who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
30. ‘And you shall guard My Charge, so as not to do any of these abominable practices which were done before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them. I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”