Leviticus 18:20-30

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²⁰ You shall not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.^{(A) 21} You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them^[a] to Molech and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.^{(B) 22} You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.^{(C) 23} You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is perversion.^(D)

²⁴ “Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.^{(E) 25} Thus the land became defiled, and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.^{(F) 26} But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none of these abominations, either the native-born or the alien who resides among you ²⁷ (for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled); ²⁸ otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. ²⁹ For whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from their people. ³⁰ So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”^(G)