Leviticus 18:6-23

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⁶ You must not have sexual relations with anyone closely related to you. I am the Eternal One. ⁷ This includes your father and your mother. You are to honor her as your mother and not have sexual relations with her. ⁸ You are not to have sexual relations with your father’s wife; you might as well violate your father. ⁹ You are not to have sexual relations with your sister—whether she is your father’s daughter or mother’s daughter, regardless of where she has lived, with your family or elsewhere. ¹⁰ Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; since they are your own flesh and blood, such an act would bring shame to you. ¹¹ You are not to have sexual relations with your stepsister, the daughter of your father and his wife;^[a] for she is still your sister. ¹² Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister, your aunt; she is your father’s flesh and blood. ¹³ Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, your aunt; she is your mother’s flesh and blood. ¹⁴ You are not to dishonor your father’s brother, your uncle, by approaching his wife for sexual relations. She is your aunt. ¹⁵ You are not to have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. ¹⁶ You are not to have sexual relations with your brother’s wife, your sister-in-law;^[b] you might as well violate your brother. ¹⁷ You are not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter, her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter; they are blood relations. It would be a disgusting act. ¹⁸ As long as your wife is living, do not marry her sister or have sexual relations with her. This would make them rivals.

¹⁹ You are not to have sexual relations with a woman while she is in her menstrual impurity. ²⁰ Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife; such an act defiles you both. ²¹ Do not sacrifice your children to Molech. Such an unholy sacrifice desecrates your God’s name. I am your God, the Eternal One. ²² You are not to have sexual relations with a man in the same way you do with a woman; such a thing is detestable. ²³ Do not engage in a sexual act with an animal—this includes men as well as women; such behavior defiles you and perverts the proper order of things.