Leviticus 18:17-19:2

English Standard Version

¹⁷ You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. ¹⁸ And you shall not take a woman as a ^(A)rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness ^(B)while her sister is still alive.

^19 (C)“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. ^20 (D)And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. ²¹ You shall not give any of your children to ^(E)offer them^[a] to ^(F)Molech, and so ^(G)profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. ^22 (H)You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. ^23 (I)And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is ^(J)perversion.

^24 (K)“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, ^(L)for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, ²⁵ and the ^(M)land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land ^(N)vomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶ But ^(O)you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the ^(P)native or the stranger who sojourns among you ²⁷ (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), ²⁸ lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. ²⁹ For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. ^30 (Q)So keep my charge never to practice ^(R)any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: ^(S)I am the Lord your God.”

The Lord Is Holy

19 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, ^(T)You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.