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Leviticus 18 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Statutes on the Nakedness of Relatives

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Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3 - ‘You shall not do according to what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do according to what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:4 - ‘You are to do My judgments and keep My statutes, to walk in them; I am Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5 - ‘So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does them, he shall live by them; I am Yahweh.
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‘None of you shall approach any blood relative [fn]of his to uncover nakedness; I am Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:7 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:8 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - ‘The nakedness of your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:10 - ‘The nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for [fn]their nakedness is yours.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11 - ‘The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, [fn]born to your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:12 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s blood relative.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s blood relative.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:14 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:15 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:16 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:17 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is [fn]lewdness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18 - ‘And you shall not [fn]marry a woman in addition to [fn]her sister [fn]as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.
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‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:20 - ‘And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:21 - ‘And you shall not give any of your seed to pass them over to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - ‘And you shall not lie with a male as [fn]one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:23 - ‘Also you shall not lie with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to [fn]mate with it; it is a perversion.
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‘So do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25 - ‘So the land has become defiled, and I have brought its [fn]punishment upon it. And the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - ‘But as for you, you shall keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:29 - ‘For whoever does any of these abominations, [fn]those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - ‘Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am Yahweh your God.’”
LSB Footnotes
Lit of his flesh
Lit of his flesh
Lit of his flesh
Lit they are your nakedness
Lit they are your nakedness
Lit they are your nakedness
Lit begotten of
Lit begotten of
Lit begotten of
Or wickedness
Or wickedness
Or wickedness
Lit take a wife
Or another
Lit to be
Lit take a wife
Or another
Lit to be
Lit take a wife
Or another
Lit to be
Lit those who lie
Lit those who lie
Lit those who lie
Or lie
Or lie
Or lie
Lit iniquity
Lit iniquity
Lit iniquity
Or and the
Or and the
Or and the
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