Leviticus 18:6-23

Christian Standard Bible

⁶ “You are not to come near^(A) any close relative^[a] for sexual intercourse;^(B) I am the Lord. ⁷ You are not to violate the intimacy that belongs to your father^(C) and mother.^[b] She is your mother; you must not have sexual intercourse with her. ⁸ You are not to have sex with your father’s wife;^(D) she is your father’s family.^{(E) 9} You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s,^(F) whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her. ¹⁰ You are not to have sexual intercourse with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for they are your family.^{[c] 11} You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter, who is adopted by^[d] your father; she is your sister. ¹² You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister;^(G) she is your father’s close relative. ¹³ You are not to have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister,^(H) for she is your mother’s close relative. ¹⁴ You are not to violate the intimacy that belongs to^[e] your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual intercourse; she is your aunt.^{(I) 15} You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law.^(J) She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sex with her. ¹⁶ You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s family.^{(K) 17} You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter.^(L) You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.^{(M) 18} You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.^(N)

¹⁹ “You are not to approach^(O) a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.^{(P) 20} You are not to have sexual intercourse with^[f] your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.^(Q)

²¹ “You are not to sacrifice any of your children in the fire^[g] to Molech.^(R) Do not profane the name^(S) of your God; I am the Lord. ²² You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman;^(T) it is detestable.^{(U) 23} You are not to have sexual intercourse with^[h] any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it;^(V) it is a perversion.