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19 (A) When a woman is having her monthly period, she is unclean, so don't have sex with her.

20 (B) Don't have sex with another man's wife—that would make you unclean.

21 (C) Don't sacrifice your children on the altar fires to the god Molech. I am the Lord your God, and that would disgrace me.

22 (D) It is disgusting for a man to have sex with another man.

23 (E) Anyone who has sex with an animal is unclean.

24 Don't make yourselves unclean by any of these disgusting practices of those nations that I am forcing out of the land for you. They made themselves 25 and the land so unclean, that I punished the land because of their sins, and I made it vomit them up. 26-27 Now don't do these sickening things that make the land filthy. Instead, obey my laws and teachings. 28 Then the land won't become sick of you and vomit you up, just as it did them. 29-30 If any of you do these vulgar, disgusting things, you will be unclean and no longer belong to my people. I am the Lord your God, and I forbid you to follow their sickening way of life.

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19 “‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness(A) of her monthly period.(B)

20 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife(C) and defile yourself with her.

21 “‘Do not give any of your children(D) to be sacrificed to Molek,(E) for you must not profane the name of your God.(F) I am the Lord.(G)

22 “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman;(H) that is detestable.(I)

23 “‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.(J)

24 “‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you(K) became defiled.(L) 25 Even the land was defiled;(M) so I punished it for its sin,(N) and the land vomited out its inhabitants.(O) 26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws.(P) The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things, 27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28 And if you defile the land,(Q) it will vomit you out(R) as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

29 “‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people. 30 Keep my requirements(S) and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.(T)’”

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