Lev 18 | ESV | STEP | And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ^aI am the Lord your God. 3 ^bYou shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and ^cyou shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. 4 ^dYou shall follow my rules ^{▼▼Or my just decrees; also verse 5} and keep my statutes and walk in them. ^fI am the Lord your God. 5 ^gYou shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; ^hif a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.

6 “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord. 7 ⁱYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 ^jYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. 9 ^kYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. 10 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. 11 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister. 12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative. 13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative. 14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. 15 ^lYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16 ^mYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness. 17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. 18 And you shall not take a woman as a ⁿrival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness ^owhile her sister is still alive.

19 ^p“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. 20 ^qAnd you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her. 21 You shall not give any of your children to ^roffer them ^{▼▼Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]} to ^tMolech, and so ^uprofane the name of your God: I am the Lord. 22 ^vYou shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. 23 ^wAnd you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is ^xperversion.

24 ^y“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, ^zfor by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and the ^aaland became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land ^abvomited out its inhabitants. 26 But ^acyou shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the ^adnative or the stranger who sojourns among you 27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29 For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 ^aeSo keep my charge never to practice ^afany of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: ^agI am the Lord your God.”