Leviticus 18

About Leviticus Leviticus gives Israel's laws for worship, sacrifice and holy living, so a holy God can live among his people.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,SelectedLeviticus 18:1Ask

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.SelectedLeviticus 18:2Ask

After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.SelectedLeviticus 18:3Ask

Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.SelectedLeviticus 18:4Ask

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.SelectedLeviticus 18:5Ask

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.SelectedLeviticus 18:6Ask

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.SelectedLeviticus 18:7Ask

The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.SelectedLeviticus 18:8Ask

The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.SelectedLeviticus 18:9Ask

The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.SelectedLeviticus 18:10Ask

The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.SelectedLeviticus 18:11Ask

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.SelectedLeviticus 18:12Ask

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman.SelectedLeviticus 18:13Ask

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.SelectedLeviticus 18:14Ask

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.SelectedLeviticus 18:15Ask

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.SelectedLeviticus 18:16Ask

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 wickedness.SelectedLeviticus 18:17Ask

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.SelectedLeviticus 18:18Ask

Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.SelectedLeviticus 18:19Ask

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.SelectedLeviticus 18:20Ask

And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.SelectedLeviticus 18:21Ask

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.SelectedLeviticus 18:22Ask

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.SelectedLeviticus 18:23Ask

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:SelectedLeviticus 18:24Ask

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.SelectedLeviticus 18:25Ask

Ye 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 sojourneth among you:SelectedLeviticus 18:26Ask

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)SelectedLeviticus 18:27Ask

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.SelectedLeviticus 18:28Ask

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.SelectedLeviticus 18:29Ask

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.SelectedLeviticus 18:30Ask

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