[1] The LORD told Moses [2] to tell the people of Israel: I am the LORD your God! [3] So don't follow the customs of Egypt where you used to live or those of Canaan where I am bringing you. [4] I am the LORD your God, and you must obey my teachings. [5] Obey them and you will live. I am the LORD. [6] Don't have sex with any of your close relatives, [7] especially your own mother. This would disgrace your father. [8] And don't disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives. [9] Don't have sex with your sister or stepsister, whether you grew up together or not. [10] Don't disgrace yourself by having sex with your granddaughter [11] or half sister [12] or a sister of your father or mother. [14] Don't disgrace your uncle by having sex with his wife. [15] Don't have sex with your daughter-in-law [16] or sister-in-law. [17] And don't have sex with the daughter or granddaughter of any woman that you have earlier had sex with. You may be having sex with a relative, and that would make you unclean. [18] As long as your wife is alive, don't cause trouble for her by taking one of her sisters as a second wife. [19] When a woman is having her monthly period, she is unclean, so don't have sex with her. [20] Don't have sex with another man's wife-that would make you unclean. [21] Don't sacrifice your children on the altar fires to the god Molech. I am the LORD your God, and that would disgrace me. [22] It is disgusting for a man to have sex with another man. [23] Anyone who has sex with an animal is unclean. [24] Don't make yourselves unclean by any of these disgusting practices of those nations that I am forcing out of the land for you. They made themselves [25] and the land so unclean, that I punished the land because of their sins, and I made it vomit them up. [26] Now don't do these sickening things that make the land filthy. Instead, obey my laws and teachings. [28] Then the land won't become sick of you and vomit you up, just as it did them. [29] If any of you do these vulgar, disgusting things, you will be unclean and no longer belong to my people. I am the LORD your God, and I forbid you to follow their sickening way of life.
