1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "Speak to the children of Israel and tell them: I am the LORD your God.
3 You must not act according to the practices of the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you must not act according to the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you; you must not walk in their statutes.
4 My judgments you shall carry out and my statutes you shall keep, walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
5 Keep my statutes and my judgments, then; the person who does them will live by them. I am the LORD.
6 "No one among you may come near anyone who is his own flesh to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD.
7 The nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother, you must not uncover; she is your mother, you must not uncover her nakedness.
8 The nakedness of your father's wife you must not uncover; it is your father's nakedness.
9 The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born in the household or born outside it—their nakedness you must not uncover.
10 The nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter—their nakedness you must not uncover, for they are your own nakedness.
11 The nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father—she is your sister; you must not uncover her nakedness.
12 The nakedness of your father's sister you must not uncover; she is your father's flesh.
13 The nakedness of your mother's sister you must not uncover, for she is your mother's flesh.
14 The nakedness of your father's brother you must not uncover: do not come near his wife; she is your aunt.
15 The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you must not uncover; she is your son's wife; you must not uncover her nakedness.
16 The nakedness of your brother's wife you must not uncover; it is your brother's nakedness.
17 The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you must not uncover; you must not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness. They are her flesh; it is lewdness.
18 Nor shall you take a woman in addition to her sister as a rival, uncovering her nakedness alongside her sister during her sister's lifetime.
19 "You must not come near a woman to uncover her nakedness during the impurity of her uncleanness.
20 You must not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, defiling yourself with her.
21 You must not give any of your offspring to be passed through the fire to Molech, nor profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
22 You must not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination.
23 You must not have intercourse with any beast, defiling yourself with it, and no woman shall present herself before a beast to mate with it; it is a perversion.
24 "Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all of them the nations I am driving out before you defiled themselves.
25 The land became defiled, so I visited its iniquity upon it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26 But you are to keep my statutes and my judgments and not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the stranger who lives among you—
27 for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you did, and the land became defiled—
28 so that the land will not vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29 For anyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 So keep my charge, and do not follow any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, and do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God."