Statutes on the Nakedness of Relatives

18 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘^(A)I am Yahweh your God. ³ You shall not do according to what is ^(B)done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do according to what is ^(C)done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes. ⁴ You are to do My judgments and keep My statutes, to walk in them; ^(D)I am Yahweh your God. ⁵ So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, ^(E)which if a man does them, he shall live by them; I am Yahweh.

⁶ ‘None of you shall approach any blood relative ^[a]of his to uncover nakedness; I am Yahweh. ^7 (F)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. ^8 (G)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. ^9 (H)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. ¹⁰ The nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for ^[b]their nakedness is yours. ¹¹ The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, ^[c]born to your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness. ^12 (I)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s blood relative. ¹³ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s blood relative. ^14 (J)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. ^15 (K)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. ^16 (L)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness. ^17 (M)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 ^[d]lewdness. ¹⁸ And you shall not ^[e]marry a woman in addition to ^[f]her sister ^[g]as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.

¹⁹ ‘^(N)Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her ^(O)menstrual impurity. ^20 (P)And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her. ²¹ And you shall not give any of your seed ^(Q)to pass them over to Molech, nor shall you ^(R)profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh. ^22 (S)And you shall not lie with a male as ^[h]one lies with a female; it is an abomination. ^23 (T)Also you shall not lie with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to ^[i]mate with it; it is a perversion.

²⁴ ‘So do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these ^(U)the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. ²⁵ So the land has become defiled, ^(V)and I have brought its ^[j]punishment upon it. And the land ^(W)has vomited out its inhabitants. 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 ²⁷ (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); 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. ²⁹ For whoever does any of these abominations, ^[k]those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. ³⁰ Thus you are to keep ^(X)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; ^(Y)I am Yahweh your God.’”