18 And the Lord said to Moses,

² Say to the Israelites, I am the Lord your God.

³ You shall not do as was done in the land of Egypt in which you dwelt, nor shall you do as is done in the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.

⁴ You shall do My ordinances and keep My statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.

⁶ None of you shall approach anyone close of kin to him to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.

⁷ The nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover; she is your mother; you shall not have intercourse with her.

⁸ The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.

²⁰ Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her.

²¹ You shall not give any of your children to pass through the fire and sacrifice them to Molech [the fire god], nor shall you profane the name of your God [by giving it to false gods]. I am the Lord.

²² You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.^(A)

²⁴ Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these things the nations are defiled which I am casting out before you.

²⁵ And the land is defiled; therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.

²⁶ So you shall keep My statutes and My ordinances and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither the native-born nor any stranger who sojourns among you,