Leviticus 18 · Parashat Achrei Mot

And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

Speak to the children of Yisra᾽el, and say to them, I am the Lord your God.

After the doings of the land of Miżrayim, in which you dwelt, shall you not do: and after the doings of the land of Kena῾an, into which I bring you, shall you not do: neither shall you walk in their practices.

You shall do my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk in them, I am the Lord your God.

You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness: I am the Lord.

The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.

The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thy own nakedness.

The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thy aunt.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is foulness.

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, as her rival, and uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

Also thou shalt not approach to a woman in the impurity of her menstrual flow, to uncover her nakedness.

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through (the fire) to Molekh, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

Thou shalt not lie with a man after the manner of a woman: it is abomination.

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself with it: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down before it: it is perversion.

Defile not yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations were defiled which I cast out before you:

and the land was defiled: therefore I do punish its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourns among you:

for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;

that the land vomit not you out also, when you defile it, as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the persons that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

Therefore shall you keep my ordinance, that you commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that you defile not yourselves in them: I am the Lord your God.