Leviticus 18

18 ¹ Our Father spoke to Moses, saying:

² "Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: I am your Father. ³ You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived; and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their statutes. ⁴ You must follow my judgments and keep my statutes, walking in them. I am your Father. ⁵ You must keep my statutes and my judgments; the person who does them will live by them. I am your Father.

⁶ None of you may approach any close relative to have sexual relations with them. I am your Father.

⁷ You must not have sexual relations with your mother; that would dishonor your father. She is your mother; you must not have relations with her.

⁸ You must not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.

⁹ You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born elsewhere.

¹⁰ You must not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for that would dishonor yourself.

¹¹ You must not have sexual relations with your father's wife's daughter, born to your father; she is your sister.

¹² You must not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.

¹³ You must not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's close relative.

¹⁴ You must not dishonor your father's brother by having sexual relations with his wife; she is your aunt.

¹⁵ You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you must not have relations with her.

¹⁶ You must not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother.

¹⁷ You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter, nor take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to have relations with them; they are close relatives. It is wickedness.

¹⁸ You must not marry a woman as a rival to her sister, having sexual relations with her while her sister is still alive.

¹⁹ You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during the impurity of her menstrual period.

²⁰ You must not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife, defiling yourself with her.

²¹ You must not give any of your children to be passed through the fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your Father. I am your Father. ^a a v21 Molech was a god worshiped by passing children through fire — child sacrifice — which is why this defilement so deeply profanes our Father's name.

²² You must not have sexual relations with a male as with a woman; it is detestable.

²³ You must not have relations with any animal, defiling yourself with it; and a woman must not present herself to an animal to mate with it. It is a perversion.

²⁴ Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations that I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. ²⁵ The land was defiled, so I called the land to account for its guilt, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶ But you must keep my statutes and my judgments, and you must not commit any of these detestable things, neither the native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you. ²⁷ For the people who were in the land before you did all these detestable things, and the land became defiled. ²⁸ So do not let the land vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

²⁹ Anyone who does any of these detestable things will be cut off from among their people. ³⁰ So keep my charge: do not practice any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, and do not defile yourselves by them. I am your Father."