Thematic Bible
Leviticus 18:1 (show verse)
Jehovah told Moses:
Leviticus 18:2 (show verse)
Speak to the people of Israel and say: 'I am Jehovah your God!
Leviticus 18:3 (show verse)
Do not follow the customs of Egypt where you used to live or those of Canaan where I am bringing you.
Leviticus 18:4 (show verse)
I am Jehovah your God! You must obey my teachings.
Leviticus 18:5 (show verse)
Obey them and you will live. I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 18:6 (show verse)
Do not have sex with any of your close relatives,
Leviticus 18:7 (show verse)
especially your own mother. This would disgrace your father.
Leviticus 18:8 (show verse)
Do not disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.
Leviticus 18:9 (show verse)
Never have sexual intercourse with your stepsister, whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter. It makes no difference whether or not she was born in your house.
Leviticus 18:10 (show verse)
Do not have sexual intercourse with your granddaughter, whether she is your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, because she is related to you.
Leviticus 18:11 (show verse)
Never have sexual intercourse with a daughter of your father and his wife. She is your own sister.
Leviticus 18:12 (show verse)
Do not have sexual intercourse with your father's sister. She is your paternal aunt.
Leviticus 18:13 (show verse)
Do not have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister. She is your maternal aunt.
Leviticus 18:14 (show verse)
Never have sexual intercourse with the wife of your father's brother. She, too, is your aunt.
Leviticus 18:15 (show verse)
Never have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. Never have sexual intercourse with her.
Leviticus 18:16 (show verse)
Do not have sexual intercourse with your sister-in-law. She is your brother's wife.
Leviticus 18:17 (show verse)
Do not have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter or a woman and her granddaughter. They are related. Doing this is perverted.
Leviticus 18:18 (show verse)
While your wife is living, never marry her sister as a rival wife and have sexual intercourse with her.
Leviticus 18:19 (show verse)
Never have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is unclean during her monthly period.
Leviticus 18:20 (show verse)
Do not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her.
Leviticus 18:21 (show verse)
Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech by burning them alive. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your God. I am Jehovah!
Leviticus 18:22 (show verse)
Do not have sexual intercourse with a man as with a woman. It is disgusting.
Leviticus 18:23 (show verse)
Do not have sexual intercourse with any animal and become unclean with it. A woman must never offer herself to an animal for sexual intercourse. It is unnatural.
Leviticus 18:24 (show verse)
Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations that I am forcing out of your way have become unclean.
Leviticus 18:25 (show verse)
The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it.
Leviticus 18:26 (show verse)
Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things.
Leviticus 18:27 (show verse)
The people of the land who were there before you did all these disgusting things. As a result, the land has become unclean.
Leviticus 18:28 (show verse)
If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the people who were there before you.
Leviticus 18:29 (show verse)
Whoever does any of these disgusting things must be excluded from the people.
Leviticus 18:30 (show verse)
Therefore you must follow my instructions. Do not live by the standards of the people who lived there before you. What they do is disgusting. Never become unclean that way. I am Jehovah your God!'